Genealogy Chat

I have checked on findmypast. Charles Perrett is clearly 875, but the entry for the lady, Overton, looks as if it has been typed up and then amended by hand. It would seem to have been originally 815 but a pen has fiddled with the "1" so it now actually looks like 825.

the transcription error was on the original compilation of the indices. The index pages on freebmd (not yet transcribed) read Overton 815 & Perrett 875 so the error was the in the original typing

Thanks all
Thought i was going barmy
regards
brian

Took me a while (don't know if I am the only dim one) as I was looking for your father under 'PERRETTAND'!

I found your mother's reference,2c 815 and your father's, 2c 875.

I was looking at the page on Ancestry.

I don't have an explaination for this; does anyone else?

EDIT Seems like it was a mistake in transcription

I wonder if a 7 has been read as a 1 (or a 1 read as a 7)? That was the first thing that occurred to me - it may have been incorrectly transcribed, or there might have been a mistake in the GRO index.

I just tried a search for the whole year and it's just come up with the March quarter so far . . .

Looks like it hasn't been transcribed on Freebmd yet.

The numbers SHOULD be the same, so one of the 815/875 has been mis-read.

Looking at it on Ancestry your mother is under 815 and your father 875 so it would appear that when it has been transcribed from the written to the typed copy it has been mis-read.
You can still order the certificate if you need it. Just ask for a check on both names.

hi all
my mother and father were married in Basingstoke in Oct 1941.
when I searched on the genes site for marriage records i find a reference no 2c 875 under my fathers name and 2c 815 under my mothers maiden name i thought the number would be the same there was only 1 wedding.
Then when i go to FreeBMD site that site dosnt like either number.
my fathers name was charles lewin james perrettand my mother's is margaret rose overton. hope this explains my problem
brian

Free BMD is transcribed up to about 1935, although there are some later records, they are mainly for those names sent in by one-name researchers.

Is this perhaps why you cant find it on there?

I don't understand what you mean by the friends search site either.

Brian if you want to pm the names I will double check on Ancestry for you?

can anyone tell me why when i look up my parents wedding cert. it shows the friends search site with different record numbers when i look under my fathers name to when i look under my mothers maiden name and on the freeBMD site there is no record under either reference number. any suggestions where i go from here.
brian