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From: "Jayne Wright" <>
Subject: RE: [Lon] Register pages
Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 09:50:47 +0100
In-Reply-To: <009d01c1f59b$fe6432c0$c88101d5@f8h3o5>


Returning marriage certs when divorced?! My ex submitted mine to the
court for purposes of the court case - BUT I then had to buy another one
to prove my name change (from maiden name) when changing the address on
my driving licence - even though I had had a full licence for 25 years -





Jayne

-----Original Message-----
From: Hilary Stanton [mailto:]
Sent: 07 May 2002 08:51
To:
Subject: Re: [Lon] Register pages

Hello Dian!
That made me giggle! Yes, the registrar was a little neurotic, I made it
right at last minute before they closed for 12 month deadline - she
insisted
my daughter's name was Deborah and NOT Debbie as I kept insisting. she
was
really nasty but yes - definitely torn out as I asked her why and she
yelled
at me about how I was the one changing her name etc etc. she reminded me
of
my old headmistress.....She told me that once I'd changed my daughter's
name
from my then maiden name to my now married name, that was IT!
(Unless it was my original certificate that she ripped up?)
Will phone Exeter later to find out. I was under the impression, or
hoping,
that copies of original were made to send to main GRO.
My mother-in-law told me that she had to rturn her marriage cert to be
destroyed when she was divorced. I can't remember that happening to me
but
can't find my wedd cert either...but I know what I MIGHT have done with
it......
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dian Elvin" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, May 07, 2002 8:31 AM
Subject: [Lon] Register pages


> Dear Listers
>
> I don't understand all this tearing out of register pages. Surely
there
are
> other people's records on the other side or on the same page? Very
odd
> indeed. Do you think registrars become a little neurotic after a
while?
>
> When I was being married for the second time at the age of 50, in a UK
> registry office, I noticed the previous entry and laughed. This
produced
a
> strange reaction on the part of the registrar and she covered the
entry
with
> a sheet of paper saying "You are not supposed to look at that!" and
glared
> at me as though I was a small child. Difficult not to see something
in
> front of one's nose and difficult not to laugh when recognising the
surname
> of a young man who had crashed into the back of my orange 2CV with his
> little white VW beetle only a couple of weeks before. The headlights
of
his
> car fell out like eyes on stalks. This was the second time he had
done
this
> at the same junction and his father had paid for the damage to my car
and
no
> doubt the previous car. The father was getting married and the young
man
was
> his witness. It was quite a co-incidence and it still makes me laugh.
>
> No way could the page have been torn out without ruining at least two
> records.
>
> Dian


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