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Elizabeth

Elizabeth Report 10 Sep 2009 18:50

hello all
A very quck question. Is it normal for a marriage in 1880 for both the bride and goom living in the same house on the marriage certificate???

thanks liz

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Report 10 Sep 2009 18:58

thanks for the speedy response... makes sense!! i am clutching at straws!!!

also is it normal for everyone on the marriage certificate to sign with an X and the husband not to put "x" the name on the marriage certificate has been written by the priest.

mmmmmmm

Madmeg

Madmeg Report 11 Sep 2009 19:03

Hi Elizabeth

The certificate was probably written by the priest, including the "signatures", so the name of the groom would not be the groom's own handwriting. However, if the priest has not added "the mark of" you can be fairly sure that he could sign his own name.

Margaret

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Report 18 Sep 2009 18:05

thanks margaret. I have checked the marriage certificate. no cross next to the name like all the rest and the name is definalty written by the priest,, you can tell its not a signature just the name as written on the marriage certificate itself!

mmmmmmm

KeithInFujairah

KeithInFujairah Report 18 Sep 2009 21:17

Dont forget unless you have seen the original certificate in the parish registers, you probably wont be viewing your relatives signatures anyway, they will be copies from the transcribed records that were sent to the GRO.

Madmeg

Madmeg Report 18 Sep 2009 22:14

Oh, it does depend on whether you end up with a copy of the original or the priest's copy, and it is usually the latter, so it will be what the priest wrote. The absence of the X should mean that he could sign his own name, but the writing there is not his own signature.

Margaret