I just made a quick call to mudcatter Crump about this song. He tells me that a bandmember of Redmayne called Barry Oates collected it for the band from an inknown source and the version they sing is "married by Hoskins as I've heard say". Crump also tells me they have heard other versions from people who when questioned say they sing Haskins.

Presumably this implies that the vicar's name was Hoskins or Haskins.

This information is in no way definitive just one variation of the meaning. They have been singing it this way since 1970.

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