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Beginners => Family History Beginners Board => Topic started by: baz54 on Tuesday 30 October 07 16:28 GMT (UK)
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Hi can anyone advise please. I've been looking at the B.M.D. on ancestry for a marriage and on finding a likely date/place I find that there are only 3 individuals listed for ref.F15 P403 Q4 1839. Is it likely to be a transcribing error or would there be a missing entry in the G.R.O. files. Will applying for the certificate clear it up one way or another?
Thanks for your advice.
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See See Failing to find the spouse
http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/marriage-help.html
Stan
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Have you checked FreeBMD which is usually ahead of Ancestry as it provides the transcriptions? Also on FreeBMD you can check how much of the particular quarter has been transcribed.
David
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Will applying for the certificate clear it up one way or another?
Most definitely it will tell you the marriage partner for the person you are researching!
Looking at the GRO images, all 3 people listed seem to have the correct reference. Coverage for marriages in Dec 1839 is ca. 65% only on FreeBMD (and ancestry)
:)
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Thanks all, I guess that there's no point trekking to the library to check the G.R.O for myself? Otherwise it looks like I'll have to fork out the £7 and hope my guess is correct.
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If you send for the marriage cert. for the person you are researching, you do not need to state the spouse if you are applying to a reg.office. Just ask for the name you are sure of!
Kooky
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Thanks all, I guess that there's no point trekking to the library to check the G.R.O for myself? Otherwise it looks like I'll have to fork out the £7 and hope my guess is correct.
That would be an gigantic task! The GRO is an alphabetical listing!
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Should I have said the B.M.D at the library?
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Same thing! :(
The FreeBMD database is the only facility that allows you to search by reference - the index they transcribe from is alphabetical :-\
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Oh ok, but as I know the names of the people that I am looking for there shouldn't be a problem as long as the records are complete, but are the records likely to be complete at the library if they aren't complete on Free B.M.D. or ancestry? I guess the only way to find out is to go look see.
Thanks for your advice anyhow. :)
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Maybe I can help here. That index reference brings up 3 names in Brackley RD:
Patience Bayliss
Temperance Saving
George Varney
Per the IGI, Patience Bayliss married Thomas Davis on 17 October 1839 at Finmere, Oxford.
Also per the IGI, and also at Finmere, Temperance Saving married George Varney on 5 December 1839.
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Oh ok, but as I know the names of the people that I am looking for
LOL, that's the bit I didn't understand! :P ;D
Some of us have access to the complete index! Just post the names and we'll check! :D
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Sorry Tati I didn't make it clear that I had their names in my initial post, but Shaunj's done the job for me as Patience Bayliss was the missing name.
Thanks Shaun and everyone for the help.
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Just seen this earlier thread Baz http://www.rootschat.com/links/0252/
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Thanks Shaun I will do that as I'm sure that they are the correct people I'm after.
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... I find that there are only 3 individuals listed ...
I came across one of these a while ago. In the end it turned out that one of the indexes was badly faded and the page number was almost unreadable for that entry. In this case the fourth one was transcribed as ... 1d 2*3 instead of ... 1d 213 like all the others.
Hope you are lucky and hit the right one.
Paul
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Hi
In the complete BMD Marriages there is a Thomas DAVIS Vol 15 Page 403 Reg Dist Brackley.
It looks like the surname DAVIS is on one of the pages that haven't been transcribed yet as a search for anyone with that surname for Dec Qtr 1839 finds none at all.
Andy