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Antie Em wrote:This depends on where you are ordering it from, register offices differ and sometimes you get a typed copy. Mainly the ones I've had from the main GRO have been copies of the original - which is lovely because you have the signatures. Might be worth giving them a call though here : http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
Sometimes, you can get copies from the local archives, for a fraction of the price, and these are definitely copies of the originals, what area are you looking at?
Maggie
Antie Em wrote:This depends on where you are ordering it from, register offices differ and sometimes you get a typed copy. Mainly the ones I've had from the main GRO have been copies of the original - which is lovely because you have the signatures. Might be worth giving them a call though here : http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
Sometimes, you can get copies from the local archives, for a fraction of the price, and these are definitely copies of the originals, what area are you looking at?
Maggie
rabbit wrote:Antie Em wrote:This depends on where you are ordering it from, register offices differ and sometimes you get a typed copy. Mainly the ones I've had from the main GRO have been copies of the original - which is lovely because you have the signatures. Might be worth giving them a call though here : http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/
Sometimes, you can get copies from the local archives, for a fraction of the price, and these are definitely copies of the originals, what area are you looking at?
Maggie
This is a bit long winded - but here goes:
Two people I am researching got married in 1926 in Wolverhampton. On a certificate I have seen from one of their relatives the brides surname is not her real surname and the bridegroons name has been spelt wrong. When I searched the index's I found the bridegroom's entry and the volume number and page number and his surname spelt correctly. When I clicked on 'find spouse' I got a negative answer. But when I searched the index for the bride I got the same volume number and page number. The bride at the time was pregnant and she gave birth to a daughter 4 months after the marriage and on the birth certificate for the daughter the mother's name is the real one. The certificate I have seen makes me wonder if it is a handwritten copy (the writting al the same, signatures printed) someone has copied it incorrectly. I cannot give the names because some of the brides children are still living. Could it be that the bride used a different name to avoid embarrising her family, it was a church wedding and there are no photographs of the wedding anywhere and her living children have no answers.
Rabbit
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