When I first started doing this I couldn't find the birth reg of either my many times great grandmothers or her brother. According to the 1851 census he was born in 1948 and she in 1850. I spent ages searching and even phoned the GRO and asked them to do a search a year or so either way with the correct father and mother! I later discovered the father re-married on the 1871 with two daughters from his first marriage I didn't know about and they were registered so got the mothers maiden name and therefore was able to trace a marriage.
WELL, yesterday I found the baptisms of the first two, together with their actual dates of birth, they were both born earlier than stated and both born before the couple married. So now I know, another case of having the child baptised and declaring to be a married couple, but not registering the children. Then registering the ones born in the 1860's when they were married.
I know it not much, but I was so pleased to discover why they didn't register the first two and did the last two...........a small victory for the genealogist!!
WELL, yesterday I found the baptisms of the first two, together with their actual dates of birth, they were both born earlier than stated and both born before the couple married. So now I know, another case of having the child baptised and declaring to be a married couple, but not registering the children. Then registering the ones born in the 1860's when they were married.
I know it not much, but I was so pleased to discover why they didn't register the first two and did the last two...........a small victory for the genealogist!!
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