Another one I have found today, though admittedly I haven't seen the actual marriage cert, just a transcription is William Baxter and Mary Ann Abrahams's marriage 24 Mar 1863 at St John, Penge, Surrey. Both FamilySearch and FreeREG say that Mary Ann's father is down as George Berridge, stationer and printer. But George Berridge was only about 6 years older than Mary Ann and was actually the husband of her stepdaughter from her previous marriage (Anna Jane Abrahams), making him Mary Ann's stepson-in-law, not her father! I can only imagine that he "gave her away" since her father and her stepfather were both dead, and somehow his details came to be written down as father on the marriage record. He was also a witness at the wedding. (His father was Isaac Berridge, lighterman, so they aren't talking about a previous generation.) Her father was really William Cottam.
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