Civil Partnership of Susan Crane and Karen Newman

This material is held atWomen's Library Archives

  • Reference
    • GB 106 8CPC/5
  • Dates of Creation
    • 2006-2008
  • Physical Description
    • 1 folder

Scope and Content

Documents relating to their civil partnership registration ceremony on 16 Jun 2006, on board TS Queen Mary, Waterloo Pier, London; celebrations on 17 Jun 2006 at Danubius Hotel Regent's Park; blessing and Service of Commitment to celebrate their covenant of love, at the Liberal Jewish Synagogue, London on 18 Jun 2006. Includes:

* Copy of certificate of civil partnership

* Answers to questionnaire about their reasons for choosing to register a civil partnership (2008)

* Schedule of events and planning documents

* Invitations and order of ceremony

* Order of service including copies of prayers and readings made during the ceremony and transcript of address given by Rabbi Mark L Solomon

* Two press cuttings on civil partnership within Jewish communities: 'Liberal Jews pioneer gay marriage services', by Ruth Gledhill, The Times, 25 Nov 2005 and 'Out of the wilderness', by Rabbi Roderick Young, Jewish Chronicle, 2 Dec 2005

* Email from a guest and family member describing the weekend festivities, 27 Jun 2006

* Photographs

* DVD recordings of civil ceremony, celebrations and synagogue blessing