Incorrect fathers names on marriage certificates

[Marmalady]

My gg grandfather's marriage cert in 1855 gives his father's names as the same as his own, Charles Henry Lintern. I went on a total false line finding a supposedly matching Lintern baptism in Somerset. Luckily I followed the Somerset Charles jnr forward and found that he was a totally different person. My Charles variously gives is place of birth as London and Hannover so I am at a dead end.

Could he mean the Hanover Square area of London?

[Chilternbirder]

Could he mean the Hanover Square area of London?[/quote]
Well one census just gives place of birth as "Germany" and my mother's aunt told her that he was German so I assume the city was meant.

[sugarbakers]

Peter

Charles Lintern: 1861 b. Hanover; 1871, b. Germany; 1881 b. London; 1891 b. Hanover, with various occupations, but wife and children match up.

The London one looks wrong, and I'd be pretty certain he was born in the State of Hanover, now Niedersachsen.
FamilySearch, Ancestry (World) may help with finding his birth, but to search records actually in Germany it's usually necessary to have the place of both.
AGFHS  http://www.agfhs.org/site/index.php  may be useful.

Lintern is not a German name, but LINTNER is. Easily written incorrectly on records when he entered the country.

I don't think you are at a dead end yet 

[Chilternbirder]

Thanks for that link, I will follow it up in detail when I have time.

The 1881 census matches the statement on his marriage cert. I had thought that my great aunt's statement was pure fancy until I found the other censuses.