Has anyone seen a marriage registrar....

[Newbie2023]

Enter a wrong forename for a grooms or brides father on a marriage certificate??

Or has anyone ever heard of "John" being a shortened name/nickname for "Joseph"??

I would appreciate any advice/pointers 

[Christine53]

My husband's grandmother's certificate has the wrong forename for the groom's father. She always claimed that the vicar marrying them was tipsy !

[rayard]

I have a certificate with the wrong name for the groom.
rayard.

[rosie99]

Forenames are often wrong.  Maybe because the bride or groom does not know or they are trying to cover up something.  Also dependant on accents and what the clergy hears,

Illegitimate children sometimes invent fathers names or use the name of a stepfather or grandfather.

[Pheno]

My parents Ronald & Joyce were married in a Church immediately following the marriage of another couple also Ronald & Joyce.

When they received their certificates the wrong Ronald was married to the wrong Joyce!

Pheno

[Ray T]

I have a birth cert. where the name of the father was removed 16 years later.

[AntonyMMM]

Enter a wrong forename for a grooms or brides father on a marriage certificate??

Or has anyone ever heard of "John" being a shortened name/nickname for "Joseph"??

I would appreciate any advice/pointers

First thing is to establish where the information is from....

The  register entry, a certificate, or a transcript?

[DianaCanada]

I have one where the father of the bride was entered as Thomas rather than Matthew - the groom was Thomas so the vicar probably got confused.
Also a Naomi entered as Amy - a hard of hearing vicar?

[DianaCanada]

My parents Ronald & Joyce were married in a Church immediately following the marriage of another couple also Ronald & Joyce.

When they received their certificates the wrong Ronald was married to the wrong Joyce!

Pheno

Popular names at the time!  My mother was a Joyce and her cousin, who she lived with, married a Ronald.