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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: [BKM] Marriage
Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 22:50:32 +0100
In-Reply-To: <BKECIGBKOAPFLNIFKACMIEHKKFAA.pmwade@optusnet.com.au>


In message <>, Pat
Wade <> writes
>Hello,
>
>I am looking for the marriage of a William BUTCHER hopefully
>to a Mary and possibly a Mary INNS and possibly about 1844.
>
>My guess would be in Buckingham somewhere but it could be
>just over the border (so to speak).
The obvious thing to do is look at the GRO indexes - either at
FreeBMD online (which is free), or commercial 1837online.(which is not)
There may be the option of looking at a set of the indexes on
microfiche, if you live near a major genealogical library in Australia,
or a Mormon FHC.
The point is that young people often married a long way from home,
because the girl (sometimes the man) was in domestic service in London
or elsewhere, and married where she could be sure of getting a present
from her employers (THEN went back home to the country). The GRO
indexes cover all of England and Wales, so they will pick up the
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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