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False Info on a Marriage Cert
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Christopher | Report | 29 Oct 2007 14:05 |
hi there, |
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Sam | Report | 29 Oct 2007 14:17 |
Plenty of people lied on marriage certificates, often making up a fathers name in order to cover up their illegitamacy. Also, ages were frequently fibbed about. It didn't make the marriage illegal or invalidate it in any way. |
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juma | Report | 29 Oct 2007 14:18 |
It was very common to knowingly give false information. The registrar took everything on trust. My own grandmother made up a fathers name on her marriage cert as she was illigitimate. In each instance I have come across the father was always stated as 'deceased'. It was usually done to save face with the new in laws rather than admit you didn't know who he was. |
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Christopher | Report | 29 Oct 2007 14:25 |
thank you one and all. |