FreeBMD marriage query

[SteveTurner]

When you enter the husband's full name and the wife's Christian name looking for her surname, and a range of dates (using an educated guess based on their age and age of eldest child) you get a number. Click on that number and you usually get a list of four names. From this you can usually work out the wife's maiden name.

Assuming there's two marriages, are these taken from the same place chronologically?

I wondered because I'm looking at a friends family tree and on Barnsley 9c 314 are a brother and sister. Double wedding? Or coincidence?

[gardener]

The registrar's entry books have space for two marriages per page, so you get four names. They could be the same day or consecutive days or a longer gap depending on how busy the place was. In the earlier years of civil registration there may even be three marriages per page. If it is a brother and sister then a double wedding is a strong possibility.

[Northern Lass]

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