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The deaf blacksmith who married in 1576 – and the history of sign as a legal language

By Rosamund Oates, Senior Lecturer in History, Manchester Metropolitan University

In February, Leicester Cathedral hosted a British Sign Language (BSL) service celebrating a deaf marriage that took place in the church 450 years ago, in 1576.

The groom was a deaf blacksmith from Leicester named Thomas Tilsey, who made his wedding vows in sign. It was so unusual that the clerk who witnessed the marriage recorded it in full in the parish records. Although the BBC…

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