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From: "Christopher N. Lewis" <>
Subject: Re: [BAN] Post 1837 marriage entries in PRs
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2003 19:51:30 +0100
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Hi Susan

I have come across marriage entries in Parish Registers after 1837 where no
fathers name is given. Some of these are cases where the marrying party was
illegitimate, so presumably did not know who their father was (or didn't
want to say). But not in all cases. I also have a marriage certificate from
the GRO from 1903 in which no fathers name is given - in this case the
father had died when the groom was 16. Perhaps he was asked who his father
was, misunderstood and said he had no father, hence the form was left blank.

Which doesn't really help you, does it? Sorry <grin>

Christopher

----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2003 7:23 PM
Subject: Re: [BAN] Post 1837 marriage entries in PRs


> Thanks so much, John, for your thoughts. I may have confused you a
> bit, however. I'm trying to avoid ordering the certificates if at all
> possible; converted to Canadian dollars they become very expensive so I
> try to order them only if absolutely necessary. It costs me over $20
> CDN for a certificate whereas I can order a film through my local FHC
> for approx $7 CDN. Obviously, the latter would be preferable but only
> if I'm fairly certain the fathers' names would be given. The two
> entries I mentioned are almost certainly from the LDS extraction program
> since they show up as part of batch numbers M147509 (parish registers
> for St James Westminister) and M04793 (parish registers for Old Church,
> St Pancras). I was just wondering whether anyone has ever come across a
> parish register in the post 1837 period where fathers' names do not form
> part of the register entry.
> Regards,
> Susan
> Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
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