Talk:Knobstick wedding

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A fact from Knobstick wedding appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 October 2013 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows: Did you know... that the groom was not always a willing participant in a knobstick wedding? A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2013/October. The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Knobstick wedding.

I can guess from the citations and other such clues in the article, but shouldn't this article start by stating what countries this practice was common in? FruitMonkey (talk) 11:34, 7 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I agree with you. PrincessSparkleKitty822 (talk) 05:48, 26 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The description of the Saxton wedding (the one mentioned in the Times in 1829) is slightly misleading, as it implies that Saxton was forced to marry Brooks because he was the presumed father of her child; this type of shotgun/knobstick wedding wasn't unusual and certainly wouldn't have made the London press. The scandal in this case was that Saxton (a drunken pauper from Sheffield) and Brooks (a disabled woman 15 years older than Saxton from Middleton-by-Wirksworth), neither of whom had previously met, were forcibly married by the Middleton authorities in an attempt to shift the costs of Brooks's care off the books of Middleton and onto the books of Sheffield; the issue was one of fraud, not of paternity.

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