Margaret Lynch

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

I can see why it's doing your head in, it's driving me mad too.

What's his fathers name on that marriage cert?

Welcome to the madhouse !!

Full details:

Joseph Thomas Patrick Lynch aged 36, batchelor, artiste of 27 South Lambeth Road, father Thomas Lynch, deceased, artiste

and

Margaret Ann Swallow aged 31, widow of 7 Parker Street, father Robert Ralph, deceased, mariner

Married 11 Dec 1900 at St Mary, Lambeth. Witnesses George Whitehead and Annie Robbins. George Whitehead is a witness on several other marriages so is probably an official. There's a Robbins family in the same building as the Lynchs in 1901.

[Margaret in Burton]

Don't know if you have this but there is a death of a Margaret Ann Lynch in 1910.
St George Hanover Sq
Jun qtr 1a 251
aged 39

It fits and perhaps Joseph wasn't truthful to William Green in 1911 about being a widower.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Don't know if you have this but there is a death of a Margaret Ann Lynch in 1910.
St George Hanover Sq
Jun qtr 1a 251
aged 39

It fits and perhaps Joseph wasn't truthful to William Green in 1911 about being a widower.

I hadn't seen that one. There are a couple of other Margaret Lynchs on the 1901 in the London area of a similar age but it does fit.

[Margaret in Burton]

When the marriage cert arrives for Joseph and Grace I wonder who Joseph will have as fathers name.

Hopefully Thomas.

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

When the marriage cert arrives for Joseph and Grace I wonder who Joseph will have as fathers name.

Hopefully Thomas.

Or it could say Joseph Thomas Patrick !!

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Rick

Or it could say Joseph Thomas Patrick !!

We will await the outcome Rick, when is the estimated date of dispatch? (allowing for the Christmas post of course)

[Rick]

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

We will await the outcome Rick, when is the estimated date of dispatch? (allowing for the Christmas post of course)

The 18th - frustrating to say the least. Still, I've been staring at this particular brick wall for more than 6 years, so I don't suppose a few more days will hurt.

[Uncle John]

Originally Posted by Rick

Does anyone know what the mysterious note in the margin next to the marriage entry in the Ancestry LMA records for Joseph Lynch and Margaret Swallow in 1900 might mean ?

It says "Applicants for certified copy of entry 206 should be referred to the Registrar General".

I wonder why ?

Originally Posted by Merry

Sounds like the sort of thing they wrote if the marriage had been annulled. Copies of such marriage certs are not supposed to be issued if requested.

Online publication of the LMA registers is an interesting way of bypassing the bar on issue of such certificates. I'm surprised the particular entries weren't blacked out ("redacted" to use Freedom of Information Act terminology) before scanning.

I wonder if someone at the GRO will pick up on this thread and start a wholesale examination of the LMA marriage registers.

[Merry]

UJ, I think the actual reason was purely that the marriage cert wasn't signed by the vicar as there was another one on the following page, exactly the same, with the same note.

[Rick]

[QUOTE=Astro Lady;48028]Sorry nothing to do with family history, just want to say hi to Rick and Jan, long time no see. Hope you have a very merry xmas xxxx
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Hiya Valley !!! We've been hiding in plain sight And a very merry Xmas to you too. Will send you a PM.

Rick & Jan.xx