Has anyone seen a marriage registrar....

[Newbie2023]

Thanks Antony its on the certificate.

[Newbie2023]

I must say I'm not as perplexed as I was, now that I've read a few of the above comments!

Thanks everyone 

[AntonyMMM]

A certificate is copied information.... needs to be checked on the register entry.

Even then  if it was a church marriage,  there would be two registers completed  so there is always room for errors to creep in.

[Newbie2023]

Antony I have a copy of the transcript which is on the Online Lancashire Parish Church Project and the grooms fathers name is John also. The source of the information is said to be the register: marriages 1896-1906 Page 63 Entry 126, on microfilm at Manchester Central Library. Do you think that an error could have been made when transferring information to microfilm from a written church register? I'm sorry if I sound green, but I really am not used to this depth of delving! 

[AntonyMMM]

So not a certificate then  !

But you are working from a transcript.

The microfilm will have an image of the church register, but then someone ( a volunteer working on the excellent LancsOPC project) has looked at it and decided it says John.....it may well do, but transcribers do make mistakes (I know I have) so you need to see the register entry.

Good news is that if it is a Manchester marriage I would expect an image of the register to be available on Ancestry.

[Neale1961]

I have a marriage record where the fathers' names have been switched. Father of the groom and his occupation has been given to the bride in error, and father of the bride is given to the groom.

[jbml]

I have a marriage certificate where it appears as though the bride and groom's places of residence have been switched.

I mean ... it's POSSIBLE that someone who grew up in Newmarket moved to Trumpington and married there, whilst her husband who grew up in Trumpington moved to Newmarket, only to marry a bride from Newmoarket who had moved to Trumpington (they have to have had an opportunity to meet and get to know one another, after all) but I think this scenario is a little unlikely.

[Geoff-E]

An ancestor of mine (and his father) appear on GRO marriage certificate (1841 transcription) as ELDRED rather than ELDING.

[Rena]

I know of a marriage that took place in the local registrar's office.

The happy couple didn't actually look at their certificate until much much later, when they discovered that when the Registrar had asked "What's your name?",, the groom's father had given his own name