Genealogy Chat

George carter born 1842 in march cambridgeshire trying to find his wifes maiden name ..mary jane they had moved to crawshawbooth before the 1871 census and this says mary j was born in haslingden They had a few children the oldest being isiah born in 1866. I am trying to find the marriage record so i can figure out mary j's maiden name.. but htis is all bmd came up with Carter George Whittlesey 3b 1335 CRANE James E Whittlesey 3b 1335 FERVEGUE Elizabeth Whittlesey 3b 1335 Whyle Mary J Whittlesea 3b 1335 Whyte Mary J Whittlesey 3b 1335 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now whittlesey could be right as its cambridgeshire i believe but why would there be 5 people?? Could they be unsure of her surname?? I have done a search for haslingden and no mary j whyte/whyle was born there in 1846 so am i looking in the wrong place?? Am i going mad?? Help !! If this is the right marriage then they were cutting it fine before isiah was born lo xx clare

One of the children's birth cert would give her maiden name.Sandra

Hi clare The best thing to do would be to get a birth certificate of one of the children - this would show you the maiden name and make searching for the marriage a bit easier. Trish

thanks i will have to get it ordered but was hoping to find it online but i guess i will have to go the long way round. Thanks xx

Hello I would expect that the page has been transcribed twice (they'd do that to act as a double-check) and her line has been interpreted slightly differently each time. I was trying to have a look at the free images, myself, but keep getting zero K files - i.e. nothing to read. But if you can (eventually) look at the image for yourself, perhaps you'll be able to make your own mind up about her name. http://images.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/choose.pl Christine

I looked on 1837 for you, the marriage seems to be registered under the two names there, WHYLE and WHYTE. I found this on FreeBMD. Maybe it was WHYLE. But again to be safe you need to buy a birth certificate of the children, this woman was born in Cambridgeshire, not Lancashire. Surname First name(s) District Vol Page ------------------------------------ Births Jun 1845 -------------------------------------- WHYLE Mary Jane Whittlesey 14 145

thats what i thought too, if it is the same person why would she put cambridgeshire as place of birth but on the census it is haslingden?? I will have to apply for a copy of the certificates to be sure. xx thanks xx clare

Clare Have you looked on Lancsbmd for this marriage? Although not all marriages are transcribed yet, if they ARE then you get one groom to one bride and a handy reference number for the local Registry Office, which in my experience is the best place to get certs from - really fast, a matter of days rather than weeks. Good luck Marjorie.

Quite frequently they would put the wrong place of birth on censuses Ann Glos