Errors on Marriage Certs.

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:11 pm

Hi all,
While replying to a post on Scottish People on here, I found what I think is a fairly common error.
When it is the Grandparents names that are put in, instead of the Parents.
I have come across it three times myself.
Anyone else found this on their researches?
Davie

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:28 pm

Frequently !

And, especially where a son is doing the informing for a death registration, not at all unusual to find that he confuses mother's/grannies'/greatgrannies maiden surnames, and even forenames.

David

Post by **emanday** » Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:37 pm

Well, my son has no chance of forgetting my maiden name.

Being a female and not able (under accepted tradition) to pass on my family name...

I gave it to him as a christian name

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:25 am

Mary

Impossible for me to forget my mothers maiden name too!!

Just wish one of my gggrannies sons hadn't put down his parents names for his mothers parents

Post by **HeatherH** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:18 am

How about a husband who puts his sister in laws name on his wife's death cert?
HeatherH

Post by **emanday** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:52 pm

Your mother and I are obviously equally proud of our name, Stewie.

Wow! HeatherH, I'll bet that would have caused raised eyebrows

Post by **HeatherH** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:05 pm

HI Emanday,
It surely raised mine when I realized what was there.

HeatherH

JayPee · Post by **JayPee** » Sat Aug 12, 2006 5:28 pm

HeatherH wrote:How about a husband who puts his sister in laws name on his wife's death cert?
HeatherH

I had one that was similar and I thought it was odd ... until I found that the husband married the sister-in-law after his first wife's death

- JayPee

StewL · Post by **StewL** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 3:42 am

Perhaps Heathers long had one of those Fruedian slips, or maybe a bit of wishfull thinking. And that can go two ways

Post by **HeatherH** » Sun Aug 13, 2006 6:56 am

Who knows Stew. His wife was Margaret Ann Walker and her wee sister was Margaret Strachan Walker . Both grew to adulthood but only 1 married my Great Grandfather.(thank heavens as I'm having enough problems with this lot as it is)When I saw the death cert I had no choice as she hadn't used her middle name on her marriage cert but to check the census.Luckily Margaret S was still at home with her parents so he hadn't married a 13 year old.I still haven't found her birth (Margaret Ann's) but its near the top of my list .
Happy Hunting,
HeatherH