Marriage Certificate v Parish Record

[Happy Nick]

I have a marriage certificate where I am 99% sure the bride's father's name is wrong.  The name is the same on the marriage certificates I obtained from the General Register Office and local Register Office.  Is there any point in my trying to find the Parish Record for marriage, or is the information going to be identical.  Is one drawn up from the information on the other, or are the marriage certificate and the parish record created independently?

Hope this makes sense...

Nick

[suttontrust]

The marriage certificate is just the entry in the register.  The couple "sign the register".  If the copies you got are photocopies of the origanal, i.e. handwritten, then that is the information that was recorded at the time of the marriage.  You say that the name of the bride's father is wrong.  That could happen for several reasons.  It was his correct name but not the name he was known by.  The bride didn't give the right name.  The registrar / minister wrote it down wrongly.  If you've got independent evidence of the man's name then go with that.