Some Marriage Certificate queries

Originally Posted by Merry

Alice K Platt is the sister of Clarence Edmund Platt. (1891 census)

Thanks Merry

Sorry if I have got into a dreadful muddle again - it all makes me quite dizzy!

[Margaret in Burton]

Very odd.

17 Bloomsbury Place, Brighton doesn't seem to have existed in 1911. There are a few numbers missing.

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Clarence Thomas Platt doesn't appear to exist but his supposed father Joseph a toll collector does.

Joseph has a son Thomas but not a Clarence. Thomas was born about 1883 in Manchester. No Clarence Platt seems to have a birth reg in Manchester either.

Ooh Marg-- that is really, really helpful ... where did you find Joseph?

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Very odd.

17 Bloomsbury Place, Brighton doesn't seem to have existed in 1911. There are a few numbers missing.

How wierd !!

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Muggins in Sussex

Ooh Marg-- that is really, really helpful ... where did you find Joseph?

Joan #13

I'll send you the image

[Carolyn P]

I would definitely suggest (if you haven't done so already) that you try and get to view the original marriage entries from the actual parish registers. Since the London marriages have been available on Ancestry I have been able to compare my GRO versions with the originals and apart from seeing the actual signatures of the bride, groom and witnesses (which could be significant in your cases) have also found other slight differences such as an additional 3rd witness who did not appear on the GRO version.

[peppie]

Im so glad you posted this because this afternoon I put Thomas Platt into ancestry thinking we haven't looked at him in a while........

What if he added Clarence to the front having some allusions of grandeur?

[marquette]

In 1861, Bloomsbury St, across St George's Road from Bloomsbury Place, is missing from the ancestry census.

My ancestors the Bishops lived at 5 Bloomsbury STREET, from 1841-1873.

oh, and I have an interest (great-great aunt's first husband) in Joseph Gear Platt born about 1836 in Limehouse Middlesex. Does not look like the same Platts though.

Di

Originally Posted by Carolyn P

I would definitely suggest (if you haven't done so already) that you try and get to view the original marriage entries from the actual parish registers. Since the London marriages have been available on Ancestry I have been able to compare my GRO versions with the originals and apart from seeing the actual signatures of the bride, groom and witnesses (which could be significant in your cases) have also found other slight differences such as an additional 3rd witness who did not appear on the GRO version.

Thank you Caroline - I have a letter from Hove Register Office saying that the signatures of Caroline Ruth Dowsett on both certificates appear to be identical - and that they assume the second marriage is bigamous...but you are right - I really should try to visit and view the original documents

Originally Posted by peppie

Im so glad you posted this because this afternoon I put Thomas Platt into ancestry thinking we haven't looked at him in a while........

What if he added Clarence to the front having some allusions of grandeur?

Sounds quite plausible, Peppie- thanks

Originally Posted by marquette

In 1861, Bloomsbury St, across St George's Road from Bloomsbury Place, is missing from the ancestry census.

My ancestors the Bishops lived at 5 Bloomsbury STREET, from 1841-1873.

oh, and I have an interest (great-great aunt's first husband) in Joseph Gear Platt born about 1836 in Limehouse Middlesex. Does not look like the same Platts though.

Di

Thanks Di...curious it's another Joseph Platt......

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Joan #13

I'll send you the image

Thank you Marg