Illegal Marriage

[Merry]

As for ancestry's copy of the FreeBMD database missing this marriage, looking at the old FreeBMD stats on the Wayback Machine, the last quarter of 1843 marriages were incomplete in October 2011, so must have been filled in since then:
https://web.archive.org/web/20111105...rogressM.shtml

Doh! I didn't think of that!!

[kiterunner]

Originally Posted by Merry

The first book is "A Comedy of Errors or The Marriage Records of England and Wales 1837-1899" ISBN 0-473-05581-3

Maybe you could get it via your library?

I was looking at its availability fairly recently and my local library doesn't have it, Merry.

[Merry]

Originally Posted by kiterunner

I was looking at its availability fairly recently and my local library doesn't have it, Merry.

They could order it in from another library (if another library has it). My local library charges about £2 or £3 for this service.

The first book is probably more useful than the second, but I can't find the second volume at the moment to say why - I just remember thinking that when I read the second one!

[Phoenix]

I can't remember whether it is from the book, or if I read it in a Soc Gen mag, but some marriages which had not taken place appear in the Gro indexes: the details were completed, all save the crucial signatures.

also, some vicars and rabbis were a trifle lax. Some didn't send at all. I think that the vicar recording Granny's marriage go confused between the demands of the GRO and his bishop. Her marriage was early April, but is a bottom of the page afterthought in the indexes. I would love to know when the error was spotted: that year, or ages later?