Anne Hathaway and William Shakespeare lived within the parish of Stratford-upon-Avon, but did not marry in the parish church. Anne was three months pregnant at the time of the marriage, so to avoid the publicity of banns the couple obtained a licence from the Bishop. This licence also authorised the marriage to take place outside the parish of normal residence. Stratford then lay in the diocese of Worcester, and two documents survive in the diocesan archives to establish the marriage was performed in November 1582. Unfortunately, neither name the parish where the marriage was licensed to take place, nor has a record of it been discovered in any surviving parish register. The marriage could, therefore, have taken place in any church within Worcester diocese where no registers survive today to prove the contrary. Not surprisingly, many have been suggested: Luddington and Bishopton (both within Stratford parish), and Billesley where Shakespeare's grand daughter was later married. Another strong contender is Temple Grafton, a parish otherwise inexplicably mentioned in one of the surviving Worcester documents.