After several days of unsuccessful Google searches for mentions of London marriages by German Jews in the pre-WWI period, it finally occurred to me to look in the archives of the JewishGen discussion boards—or possibly place a query there myself. 

This message from April 18, 2013 popped up with information about a 1906 "double-date" marriage. The poster specifically asks the same question that I have posed: "Does anyone know a reason why someone, living in Berlin ... would have left Berlin **just** to marry in London?"

The trend toward covered markets for food distribution in Berlin, already underway beginning in the 1860s, gained serious momentum after the city published a master plan calling for 14 market halls to be built throughout the city. 

This was just around the time that our ancestor Schija Ringel arrived in Berlin's bustling Scheunenviertal (barn district) from Krakow and points east. Until a few days ago, I believed Schija worked in the garment trade, but now we have reason to believe that he sold fish. 

I neglected to mention one important fact gleaned from the Twiasschor-Ringel marriage certificate that I wrote about yesterday. The marriage did not take place in a synagogue or in any kind of Jewish ceremony. 

After five weeks, I received the two Twiasschor marriage certificates I ordered from the England and Wales General Register Office. The 1911 record for the marriage of Pinkas Twiasschor and Pessel Ringel provides lots of new information, which I will summarize below.