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The article, Christmas weddings in Victorian England, also mentions that Boxing Day was one of the days when churches often offered their services free or at reduced rates. That may well have come from the origins of the day itself, so named "Boxing Day", as "Charitable boxes – collections of money – would have been given out at the church door to the needy".
In the family, we find these Boxing Day weddings:
- Arthur Flew and Sarah Hines in 1814 in Tiverton
- Thomas Tooze and Mary Summers in 1823
- Dan Stephen Thompson Botterill and Mary Jane Harris in 1878
- Harry Stone and Ellen Minnie Loud in 1929
Three Boxing Day births:
- Francis Stephen Blazy (or Blazey) b. 26 Dec 1810
- Laura Trevail b. 26 Dec 1858
- Con Colleano (born Cornelius Sullivan) b. 26 Dec 1899
And christenings on Boxing Day:
- John Oxford bap. 26 Dec 1777
- Isaac Phillips bap. 26 Dec 1813
- Elizabeth Adcock bap. 26 Dec 1814
- William H Coombe bap. 26 Dec 1870
- Louisa Cox Adcock bap. 26 Dec 1880
These are just for a bit of topical interest and are only the ones found "so far", because there are so many record transcriptions that only give a vague idea of the year or the quarter when someone was born, or married. It would be impossible to buy every original certificate that gives the exact dates.