Genealogy Chat

ive had great help locating my gparents marriage in 1937 and i think ive spotted my aunts birth....... in ummm 1937! my mum who was born in 1940 was asked by my daughter when was this aunt born, it ties in but my mum insists my gran had been married for "years" before having children. now this is either a massive oooopsie by me or my gmother told porkies or could she have been married before in which case would she have been married in her maiden name?? or is it at all possible 1837 online is wrong??? kaz (ps gran would have been 33 in 1937)

Hi Kaz Do you have your grandmothers marriage cert? If she has been married before it will say somemthing like Liz Smith formerly Jones. That is of course if she is declaring a previous marriage. Some couples did split up without a divorce and pretend they had never been married before. And yes if she was married before she would have married with her maiden name. Jeanette x

Sounds like someone's been telling porkies. You don't say which quarter the events were registered in but I'm guessing nine months did not elapse between marriage and birth. The simplest solution is to buy the certicate as it's likely to be the right one. My own grandmother claims to have married the year before she actually did, in an attempt to cover up the fact she was 4 months gone when she walked down the aisle!

strangely both evens appear in the same quarter.........grans maiden name is the same on birth page and marriage page...... i dont have the cert because i didnt think it was one id need now if i do it will just be out of curiosity..............is that a bad thing to do???? kaz

No I don't think it's a bad thing Kaz. But then I am very curious (nosy! lol) It would be interesting to see if there is a father named on the cert though Jeanette x

I never pointed out to my best friend that her birth and her parents' marriage were registered less than 9 months apart. When her last surviving parent died, she found this out for herself, and was told by a malicious relative that her father was not her father at all. She was doubly orphaned that day. Love letters gave the lie to the gossip, but that doubt will always remain with her. Get the certificate by all means, but be careful with the knowledge. Best wishes B

I sent family trees to my cousins for Christmas, and no one seems to have spotted, yet, that our Great Grandfather was born three months after his parents got married!! Natalie

My Glaswegian great Gran was incredibly Victorian.In the 1920s she still "swooned" if something shocking was mentioned and my Mother remembers being told not to mention that she had got her first bra to her granny! Imagine my delight to find that this strait laced matriarchs mother was born three weeks before her parents married. (My Mother was positively gleeful at such news, as for great Granny, well, I hear there was an earthquake in Glasgow from her turning in her grave!)