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Missing marriage certificate
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Jacqueline | Report | 31 Aug 2009 21:51 |
I am trying ti find out if there are other ways of finding a marriage certificate other than looking on the usual web sites. I have a birth certificate stating that the mother of the child has married and shows her maiden name, however, even though I have both parents names, I cannot find the relevant certificate to trace the fathers' family and I have no information about the father than his name. I have looked on the census's but he seems to have slipped through the net somehow. I have tried IGI, Genes, Find my past, Ancestry and parish records to no avail. If anyone has some ideas, I would be grateful for them. Thanks you. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 31 Aug 2009 21:58 |
Is this an English or Welsh birth certificate? If so, marriage is not mentioned although it may be implied by the wording, but many parents were not completely truthful and gave the impression that they were married, when they were not. |
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Battenburg | Report | 31 Aug 2009 22:07 |
I have the same trouble with my gt grandparents. Grandmothers birth cert has parents married. Grans marriage cert has same father and occ photographer |
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Julie | Report | 31 Aug 2009 22:11 |
Just to say |
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Sue C | Report | 31 Aug 2009 22:13 |
My father's birth certificate showed married name and maiden name of his mother + fathers name etc.....all the stuff you would expect to see. |
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GlitterBaby | Report | 31 Aug 2009 22:41 |
Must be something about marrying in 1914 |
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Researching: |
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Jacqueline | Report | 4 Sep 2009 16:17 |
Many thanks for all your information. At least I am not alone. I do know that she was single in 1901 and was a widow according to the 1911 census. Although this is qhuite a small window to look at, his name was James or Edward Williams. Not an uncommon name and the last time I checked the death index, there were approx 6500 to sift through without a clue as to how old he was, where he lived etc. |