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Leann
You can order the marriage certificte on line, just look for GRO, if you put that it on your curser bar and press search it will bring it up for you.
GRO stands for general records office, you want the one that has www.gov address, so click on it and just follow the instructions to order certificate on line.
You must fill in all the information I have given you, District, Reference Number,Year, Quarter, and there is a box to tick to say you have given all information, TICK that too.
It is important to Tick the box and be on the Government GRO has it should cost you no more than £7 per certificate but other sites charge much more, and if you do not Tick THE BOX YOU ARE CHARGED More as I presume they check for Reference numbers etc.
Hope you can follow this, sounds complicated but it is common sence really.
Get back if you get stuck sure someone will try and explain again If I have not made it clear enough for you to follow.
You need to pay on line too by the way, but it is a secure site.
Janice

Leann

Pasted this for you again as I Notice you say your Nan married in Birmingham then went to Grimsby and then he went back to Smethwick.
PLEASE NOTE: Registered SMETHWICK!

Here is the marriage.
HENRY BAILEY TO JEAN CARTER:
Registered Smethwick March Quarter 1951
Reference to order Certificate: 9b 1289

Make Sure you put SMETHWICK down as district when you order this certificate.
It will ask for Volume Number probably when you order.
VOL: 9b
Page 1289
As listed above reference I gave you, if you see what I mean?
Janice xxx




This will tell you age of Henry when he married Jean.
The name of his Father and his Father's occupation.

Janice

ive spoken to my nanna she confirms this marriage cert as hers ive now ordered it so just a case of waiting,also my nanna tells me henrys mother was called celia and aswell as having henry and may she also had fred,jim and ethel so now were getting somewhere thankyou everyone for your help ive now joined ancestry.co.uk see if i have any joy on there although im not having much luck finding records on that site as yet cheers leann

Sounds good to me!
Good Luck with your searching.
Janice

Leann, when you say joined, is it as a free subscription or paying. You will need to go into births marriages and death records and click on the complete records and search the images quarter by quarter for this period probably. The transcriptions of the images roughly go up to the 1920s but if you can't find something that you think should be there then search on the images. (EG, I was born in 1974, my parents married in 1966 neither of these events are transcribed so they didn't come up on the initial search).

thanks yeah ive paid to join i also found a site called familysearch.org and its free and gave me more info than these pay sites,found lots of names and dates and allsorts of records including christenings,employment, try the site its great and free

familysearch.org can be a very useful tool but be sure to back it up with the primary sources. ie. info on Christenings may have been submitted which means it's only as good as the person's knowledge who put it on. You would be best using that to check the original parish registers. Ancestry and familysearch both have their benefits.