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Freebmd marriage index query

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JosieByCoast

JosieByCoast Report 24 Apr 2008 13:33

If someone remarries does their maiden name & previous married named show?
I have just found on the Freebmd a
Margaret BLAKER and also Margaret DENTON
1915 quarter 3 Eton
married to Charles F LITCHFIELD.

My Margaret married a Edward Kent DENTON in 1907 and I wonder if she remarried?

JosieByCoast

JosieByCoast Report 24 Apr 2008 13:42

I've done that Kirsty, and did find an Edward Denton who died in 1913 in Marylebone district, so I am reckoning that Margaret remarried. But it is the first time I have come across 2 surnames entered as a maiden name & previous married name.

Peter

Peter Report 24 Apr 2008 14:04

Joseanne,

If you click on the page number of the freebmd index reference you will find that her new husband appears to be marrying two women called Margaret in the same quarter. As there are usually only 4 names to a page the indexers must have entered her under both her previous names. It's quite helpful really.

Peter

JosieByCoast

JosieByCoast Report 24 Apr 2008 15:51

Thats just what I was thinking Peter, if it hadn't been for the freebmd I would never have known about her other marriage.

Yes her maiden name was Blaker.

Geraldine

Geraldine Report 24 Apr 2008 22:28

Hi
Another thought is...
One name might be the name she was registered at birth and the second name the one she was 'known as'.
My brother appears in the marriage register twice in his registered and 'known as' names.
Cheers Gerry

Battenburg

Battenburg Report 25 Apr 2008 05:01


My grandmother married twice.If I look for her marriage on Ancestry in 1920 it only has her previous married name. However on the local reg office site it gives her previous married name and her maiden name.