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Unknown Report 9 Jul 2006 09:52

what you are looking for

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Unknown Report 9 Jul 2006 09:53

this might be why! http://globalgenealogy*com/globalgazette/gazfd/gazfd38.htm replace * with . It's a website page about this book A Comedy of Errors Continued... The Marriage Records of England and Wales by Michael Whitfield Foster

Merry

Merry Report 9 Jul 2006 10:00

I have copies of both his books.....they are brill......! Merry

Merry

Merry Report 9 Jul 2006 10:06

Getting a real understanding of how the current GRO indexing system works and the way it can break down has saved me a fortune in wrong certificates. I think hubby and I have around 400 or so (admittedly, not all purchased.....) and we have only ever bought one wrong 'un! Merry

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Unknown Report 9 Jul 2006 10:46

Merry But it doesn't help me to find this blinking marriage that's driving me bonkers - Emma Matthews, widow, married John Garvie and it should have been around 1880 as 1st husband died 1879 and she appears 1881 census with John. Just found her sister Sarah on census with Arthur Loker in 1861 and no sign of their marriage in the indexes either! Could they have been living in sin, shock horror! Can't find previous marriages for either of the husbands, so I don't think they weren't able to marry. nell

♫ D☺ver Sue

♫ D☺ver Sue Report 9 Jul 2006 11:08

I have one like that Nell, my ancestor 'married' a woman about 23 years younger than him when he was 50+. I can't find any record of the marriage, I'm sure there was another wife somewhere because he gives his place of birth as 3 different places on the censi, Dorset, Hertfordshire and the USA. He was hiding something.