Thought I'd share this with you.
I recently was looking at the parish records for St Mary, parish church of Sculcoates (Hull). I had found a GRO index for a marriage in 1839 and thought I'd save myself getting the certificate. I just needed to know who the father of someone was (not an ancestor).
I was pleased to find the marriage quickly in this busy parish but disapointed to find no father named ..... not that unusual, you might say. HOWEVER, on looking at all the marriages on the previous and subsequent several pages I found that almost NONE of them had fathers named. :(:( It seemed this particular vicar mostly didn't bother. (I really can't beleive that 80% of the brides and grooms didn't know their fathers!!!)
I thought you'd like to know this. If I had sent for the certificate I would have thought they were illegitimate and that was that. In this case I don't think we can say that.
Anne
I recently was looking at the parish records for St Mary, parish church of Sculcoates (Hull). I had found a GRO index for a marriage in 1839 and thought I'd save myself getting the certificate. I just needed to know who the father of someone was (not an ancestor).
I was pleased to find the marriage quickly in this busy parish but disapointed to find no father named ..... not that unusual, you might say. HOWEVER, on looking at all the marriages on the previous and subsequent several pages I found that almost NONE of them had fathers named. :(:( It seemed this particular vicar mostly didn't bother. (I really can't beleive that 80% of the brides and grooms didn't know their fathers!!!)
I thought you'd like to know this. If I had sent for the certificate I would have thought they were illegitimate and that was that. In this case I don't think we can say that.
Anne
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