Advice please from transcribers of Old B.M.D certs

[ronyag54]

Hi Celia,
I just posted a query re marriages of folk living in Wirral in Liverpool. Someone had suggested it was perhaps because St Nicholas in Liverpool did cheap group weddings, because a couple did not want the neighbours to know they had been "living in sin" or because there was already a previous wife or husband in existence. I had not thought about the possibility of it being just fashionable. Do you know where I can find any info about routes over the Mersey prior 1850? 

[celia]

St Nicholas in Liverpool did cheap group weddings

Hi Rony
I never knew about that,it is a good reason for using the church.No wonder it was so popular,i did see the post,and i put a link to a website on it.

Celia

[celia]

Sandy
I tried your suggestion a while back looking for Christening or other marriages,but it took to long going back and forth on the film.Plus having to use a handle to turn the film and stand up to do it didnt help much. So for now i will stick with my ? 

Celia

[behindthefrogs]

I have twice gone back to the Banns register in order to try to determine the surname of a bride who signed the register with an X.  In both cases the banns book had been completed by the same vicar and was equally unreadable.

For one of these marriages I have seen four transcriptions (two in the IGI) resulting in four different versions of her surname and my interpretation is different from all four.  I wouldn't blame any of the transcribers.

David