The Prerogative and Consistorial or Diocesan Courts could issue Marriage Licences to those who did not wish to pursue the method of having banns called. The original Marriage Licences and accompanying Bonds were destroyed in 1922, but the Prerogative and Diocesan indexes to the Bonds have survived, and are available for the Armagh Diocese for 1717 - 1845.  From 1845 the state registered Non-Catholic marriages, and from 1864 marriages of all denominations were registered.

 

Armagh Ancestry hold a copy of these bonds.