Can anyone help solve a difficult mystery please?

[Joan of Archives]

Is it just me or is Ancestry doing some really weird things at the moment?

[Chrissie Smiff]

Oer this will throw another spanner in the works:

A marriage for a William HEAP to LIQUONITE REUEL !!!!!!

19th January 1829 Snelston Derby.

I hope that is nowhere near where you are looking, lol!! Strange co-incidence though!

Oer - yes it does. I wonder where the heck she came from. I do hope it wasn't Ireland. I have absolutely no idea how to look for Iris records

I can't find them in 1851 or 1841 at all

[Chrissie Smiff]

Is it just me or is Ancestry doing some really weird things at the moment?

It is isn't it. For one thing, I can't view BMD's. It says there isn't anyone under any quarter of anything I am going to have to buy some credits on find my past. Do you know of any offers at the moment

p.s. I'm fuming too because I have only just re joined Ancestry

[Chrissie Smiff]

Details of her burial from NBI
14th June 1860 Legnervitre Heap age 56 buried Heage, St Luke Derby.
Details from Findmypast vary slightly? Lignivitre Heaps buried 1860 born 1805.
Moggie

Oh thank you Moggie - I only just spotted this post from you.

[Joan of Archives]

I am going to email them to complain We are paying for a service & not getting it!

I did find a William Heap with Elizabeth his wife, baby Agnes on the 1841 census. I think I'm going nuts as it looks like his occupation reads "Fancy man"

[Chrissie Smiff]

I don't suppose her death cert would tell me her 'nee' name or where she was born would it?

[Chrissie Smiff]

I shall try and find that one Jo - thank you.

I'm still curious as to why I can't find Millicent in 1851 though. She should be a young child.

[Joan of Archives]

I don't expect she will be under that name. Probably that was her middle name or "pet" name.

Have you tried looking for Millie or Cilla?

[Chrissie Smiff]

Can anyone tell me please where I could view that marriage?
There obviously won't be a cert and I'm a complete novice once it goes back before certs.

[Little Nell]

Pre-cert marriages are in the relevant parish marriage registers which are at the county records office. As you have the parish name and an exact date you may find if you email nicely they will send you a photocopy of the entry for a small fee.

Unfortunately pre1837 marriage certs in England and Wales don't give as much info as those post 1837. It should give the bride and grooms names [so you can see for yourself what Lignum says] the witnesses - again with luck family members - which parishes the groom and bride were living in at the time of the marriage and whether they were single or widowed.