Genealogy Chat

Bella,

They've either not been transcribed yet and will appear at some time - or they may have been allocated to the wrong area. You know sometimes when you look at the list of names one of them is in italics - it usually means that the codes (2a 365 or whatever) are incorrect or the area name is incorrect. It will get sorted out at some stage.

Jill

freebmd links couples together using the district and volume and page numbers e.g. district = Wycombe, volume = 3a, page number = 214

if any of these have been mistranscribed then there will be fewer than 4 people showing

you then need to try various permutations, e.g. try searching for all marriages in the same quarter e.g. Jun 1850 and same district, you may then find a "strange-looking" volume and page number, or try the same quarter and volume / page number but leave the district blank etc etc, it is all about trial and error in this instance

Mrs. Grumpy...Jill, you noticed my 'deliberate mistake' then? ;-0) What an eedjit I am.
I did of course mean the 19th century.

Kath, Linda,GemeraldITR, thank you for the advice and I will try that.
Deanna X

If you have page and volume numbers it must be 19th century marriages you are looking at. On ancestry you can click on the page number and get the other names on the page.

If you want to put up a name and year I will have a look for you.

Kath. x

If you have a page number and volume it must be for a marriage after 1837 when civil registration started. clicking on the page number (in Ancestry) lets you see the names of the other people on that page, the bride would be one of them. If you then have the couple on the following census, you should have her first name,so unless you have two women of the same first name on the marriage list,you can usually tell who she is, only the certificate will prove it of course.

the only other way is to find the marriage in the church records.If you are lucky, it will be on the IGI, if not you would need to go to the local records office to check

Some counties have on line parish clerks, so lots of the church records have been transcribed.
Go to
http://onlineparishclerks.org.uk/
and see if the county you need is there, the list in on the right of the page

Do you mean 19th century?

It sounds as if you're finding marriages on FreeBMD ... If that is the case then you click onto the number on the right hand side of his name and the other people who married during that quarter will show. There are usually 4 people - 2 men, 2 women (sometimes more, sometimes less). You then need to work out which one "he" may have married. Possible with an unusual name and the census returns, not so easy with a common name. The surefire way of finding mum's maiden name is from a birth certificate of the child.

Pre 1837 - and back into the 18th century you're into parish records and it is not always so easy as the information varied from church to church. (The forms were standardised in about 1809 and stayed the same after that but before 1809-ish it was up to the vicar so the information could be very helpful or fairly useless!)

Jill

Assuming you are talking about BMD ref numbers for dates after 1837, the wife will have the same Page and Volume number as the husband.
(Click on the page number)
If you have her first name from census records, you can usually figure out which of the 2+ females on the page your man married.
If not, you can buy the certificate from the GRO using just the husbands name.

I am doing very well and have, with the help of these sites, found my family back to the middle of the 18th century. BUT, the mother is never mentioned on the birth records unless she was unmarried!!
So my question is, how do I find the maiden names of my female family members?
I cannot even find the marriage without the maiden name, I do have the page and volume number of 'his' marriage... but how do i find her half without her maiden name?
I would be so grateful for any advice.
Deanna X