Kleftiwallah wrote:Dear all, Am I right in thinking that by looking up the marriage certificate of William Oakes of Camberwell and come up with Dec 1871 1d 1077, and looking up the name of his wife Emily Bayliss and also come up with Camberwell Dec 1871 1d 1077, that they are the persons married to each other at that time and place?
Could someone help me by telling me the other information on the marriage certificate to ensure I'm on the right path? Cheers, Tony.
If you are using FreeBMD to look up a marriage, say for William Oakes and you get the entry Dec 1871 1d 1077 if you click on the page number (1077) you can get anything up to a dozen names. Some male, some female and some that are different transcriptions of the names there. If you are lucky there are only two, 1 male and 1 female which are likely (but not definitely) to be the married couple. If there are more than two you have to be able to work out which belongs to which. Census info can help as can a look at the page on which the marriages are recorded, or you can order a copy of the certificate from the Registry Office using the name (William Oakes), the quarter (December 1871), the folio (1d) and page number (1077). As has been said, some of the Genealogy sites (like Ancestry, FMP, the Genealogist, Genes Reunited etc.) have parish lists on them, most have the census, and don't forget that most libraries have Ancestry for free. But it's also worth trying the LDS
https://www.familysearch.org/ but be careful, some of the info on the LDS has been submitted by people who are trying to prove links that are inaccurate. There are other places, especially local councils, who provide Parish Register info but quality & coverage is patchy.
Going back to FreeBMD, sometimes you'll be unlucky and there won't be an equal number of males & females, this can happen if there is an error in the index itself (you've seen the photos of the pages of the index) and sometimes the person who copied the lists gets it wrong and the folio or page number are typed inaccurately, occasionally it can be worse (I've recently found an example where Frederick was transcribed as Francis). There are ways to search the index sheets using areas and folio & page numbers but that's probably a bit complex at this stage.
Currently investigating the Hillmans of Sussex.