Marriage records

[jonacris]

Hello, I may well be posting in the wrong place here so apologies in advance!
When searching FreeBMD I have found what is probably a tenuous link to my great-grandparents' marriage inasmuch as there were 2 people of the same names married at Prescot in Sep 1875, however, one is in Vol 8b page 1068, and the other Vol 8b page 1053.
I suspect that those entries mean they didn't marry each other, but I'm running out of straws to clutch to!
Thank you
John

[Milliepede]

Could you give us the two names please so can have a look?

[softly softly]

Not sure where you find common names?


Marriages Sep 1875 

EUSTACE    Mary        Prescott    8b   1068    
FITZPATRICK    Ellen        Prescott    8b   1068    
McLAUGHLIN    William        Prescott    8b   1068
MOONEY    Bartholomew        Prescott    8b   1068    

Marriages Sep 1875   
HUGHES    Michael        Prescott    8b   1053    
LOWREY    Mary        Prescott    8b   1053    
REILLY    William        Prescot    8b   1053    
WALSH    Mary        Prescott    8b   1053

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[Dundee]

John is looking for a marriage between Mary Ann EUSTACE and Michael HUGHES.

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=603882.0

Debra 

[Milliepede]

Thanks for that Debra   

Keep in mind John that not all couples actually married. 

[coombs]

The only way is to send off for the marriage cert of Michael Hughes on 8b 1053 or Mary Eustace on 8b 1068 in case there was a clerical error with the numbering.

I just had a thought, which can explain some missing marriages, is Mary Hughes was previously married before Michael Hughes, and either Mary Walsh or Mary Lowrey was her, and originally an Eustace.

I cannot find any transcripts of the marriage on FindMyPast or Ancestry. Since 2012, lots more has come online but not yet for their 1875 Prescot marriage.

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EUSTACE   Mary    MCLAUGHLIN   William   1875   Prescot Register Office or Registrar Attended   Prescot   R/26/8


HUGHES   Michael  WALSH   Mary   1875   Prescot Register Office or Registrar Attended   Prescot   R/25/178   

No asterisk noted online which would usually denote a previous surname for the female.

Courtesy of Lancashire BMD

http://www.lancashirebmd.org.uk/marriagesearch.php

[jonacris]

Thank you all for your very swift and informative replies, unfortunately as I suspected!
I realise that not all couples married but with them being Catholic I thought it more likely they were. Although they were both born in Liverpool, both sets of parents were from Ireland so maybe they popped over there to marry, or more likely their records were destroyed in the bombing of Liverpool.
Thank you all again
John

[coombs]

Ireland civil registration began as a whole in 1864 but I think civil reg for Protestant marriages began in 1845.