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Marriage look up please

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Shazzlou

Shazzlou Report 6 Dec 2007 18:05

My gt gt grandfather James Smith married a lady called Jane ( I have not got her maiden name). Their eldest child was born about 1841 in Kensington Middlesex so i am assuming they wed about 1840 in that area. How would i go about finding their marriage certificate?

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Lewis, Smith, Meakin & Byrne. Wolverhampton & Ireland

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 6 Dec 2007 18:08

You would be taking a gamble if you didn't know Jane's surname and might easily follow the wrong line.

Buy a copy of one of their children's birth certificates to find her maiden name.

Gwyn

RutlandBelle

RutlandBelle Report 6 Dec 2007 18:13

Go to http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/

and put James Smith into search box from Sept 1837 to 1841 Kensington, and it will bring up a page with all the marriages on it. There is a James Smith and a Jane. Then you have to order the cert from GRO (£7)

James Smith Dec 1841 Kensington vol 3 page 252 on the same page is a Jane Page

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KathleenBell

KathleenBell Report 6 Dec 2007 18:22

Being such a common name, I would go with the child's birth certificate first to be sure of the mother's maiden name. There may be other James Smith/Jane marriages on the complete marriage index which are not on FreeBMD which is not complete.

Kath. x

RutlandBelle

RutlandBelle Report 6 Dec 2007 18:26

I agree with Kathleen and Gwyn, a Birth cert would definately give you the maiden name to be sure you then get the right marriage certificate

Jennifer

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Shazzlou

Shazzlou Report 6 Dec 2007 19:22

Prob is their son my gt grandfather was John Smith year of birth c. 1851 Fulham Middlesex, just as difficult as name so common. Why couldnt he have been called Zachary, Tarquin or Adolf anything but John!!!

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Lewis, Smith, Meakin & Byrne. Wolverhampton & Ireland

Shazzlou

Shazzlou Report 6 Dec 2007 19:45

Yes 1861 census
James age 42 occupation labourer born Marlborough
Wiltshire
Jane age 44 born Edgware Kingsbury London
Anny age 8
Caroline age 3
Edward age 10
Harriet born Kensington age 20
James age 14
and my gt grandfather John age 5 born 1856 Fulham Middlesex
living 12 Willow place Middlesex Fulham

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Lewis, Smith, Meakin & Byrne. Wolverhampton & Ireland