Genealogy Chat

Hello
I'm quite new to researching my family history and have a couple of questions and hope someone with more experience can point me in the right direction. I have my grandparents wedding certificate and the address given for my grandmother still exists. However it seems far too grand a house for her family to have been living in. She was married in 1920 - if she had been a domestic in the house was she likely to have given her employers address as her residence when the banns were called? Are there any other ways to check where she might have been employed in 1920. I have no idea what she did although the males in the family were labourers and manual workers and I know her sister was in service.
I'd be grateful for any comments or advice.
Thanks
Freda

A lot of large properties had a whole family in each room, maybe check the 1911 census to see how many lived there then .

If she had an occupation, the nature of it would have been recorded on the marriage cert

If she was employed as a 'living-in' servant, the address she gave could quite conceivably have been that of an employer - especially if the husband-to-be lived in the same parish. (Saved on the cost of Banns)

Where was she living in 1911? Have you located her with her family on the 1911 census?

My g/aunt married in 1917 and her 'home' address was the big house she was a cook in.

In theory you should give the address you are living at at the time of your marriage. :-)

My maternal grandmother (born 1890) grew up in Suffolk, but came to London to start work 'in service' - i.e. as a live-in servant in a large house. When she married in 1915 she correctly gave the address where she lived and worked as a servant - i.e. her employer's house. Yes, she was from a poor, working class family, but her address before marriage was a grand house.

Both my ex husband and I gave our parents addresses when we married.
We did'nt live there we had our own place but we did'nt want to get married in our local town hall, and the local register office to his mums address was nicer

jax

Thanks for your replies everyone. I think I'm just getting to grips with how to search effectively. I have worked hard today and I have now managed to find her on the 1901 census working as a housemaid in Grosvenor Square to a family who 'live on their own means' . In 1911 she was a cook (promotion!) in what seems to be a small boys school in Weybridge. She was married from a house in Paddington so she seems to have moved back into London.
Freda

Not sure if I am correct on this, but here in NZ, our occupations are listed on the electoral rolls. Would you be able to find out from the electoral roll of the area what her occupation was prior to marriage... as so often after marriage the women often have married as an occupation, (I would have thought it would more likely be a hazard than an occupation) ;-)

I will leave my reply there, yours wasn't there when I started but got distracted by my hazard.