Hello Snowball, Kay & Maureeen,
Thanks so mich for that great bit of sleuthing.
Kay I had not considered the value of looking up the GRO for this information before and its a great idea. i do for Australian records but had not for UK records.
[edit - add] Also its interesting the marriage seemingly late in life. A pair of my great great grandparents married before migrating to Australia. Apparently they had to be 'of good character' and marriage was a way of demonstrating good character. Perhaps the reverse was true - if one had all these children without the benefit of marriage then perhaps this was a demonstration of 'bad' character?
Westy
