Same sex marriage in 1951!

[Polly1958]

I'm doing a family tree for a friend and had a good laugh when i went to look for his parents marriage.His mother is Margaret A Hall, and his father was actually recorded as Winifred Moore instead of Wilfred!

[classylady60]

The irony?

[B00]

bisquit? Please tell me you didn't join AB just to specifically leave that snotty reply?

[mrs.chappie]

Well I thought it was funny Polly.

[jno]

funny, I had the same thought, B00

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[B00]

Blimey, seems pleasant eh jno?!

[jno]

it's a wet weekend, B00...

[emmie]

tracing the family tree is fascinating if not a little expensive, money and time wise.
But i uncovered some interesting facts. would love to dig around some more.

[jackthehat]

It may not be rib-crackingly funny.........but I found it wryly amusing, too.
Ignore the curmudgeon.

[ttfn]

Thank the lord my family name is not Hall! My father was Wilfrid, not Wilfred. I may relax now.

Good post polly ☺

[Polly1958]

Sometimes you wonder why you bother.Thanks to Boo and all for all the relevant, sensible replies.Thanks em10 that's why I posted it, as I thought anyone into family history would be interested

[dotty.]

Is that the recorded trnscription or in the filmed GRO index polly? if it is in the GRO index then you need to contact the GRO if it's the transcripion report it to ancestry or whoever the site/transcription belongs to.
the user bisquit is obviously not a family historian and would not be capable of a pertinent reply to your post.

[Polly1958]

Thanks Dotty, yes I took it with a pinch of salt as they say!Yes it's the actual GRO record I did put a comment in about it ,if you want to take a look its Vol 1b Page 1567 Oct Nov Dec 1951

[marval]

I didn't know same sex marriage was around then lol

[dotty.]

Hi Polly
yes it is on the actul index, notorious for such errors, you can report it via ancestry or if you want to get it corrcted with an annottion in the originl contact the GRO via the Office of national statistics t smedley hydro

[emmie]

whats difficult about tracing your family as i found out was that many families called their sons same name as father, so you are looking for father john smith, and son john smith and so forth, it can be a needle in a haystack. also what we class as womens name like Vivien, were also used for men, one ancestor i came across was listed on death certificate with scavenger as occupation. which rather threw me.
I haven't been able to continue on for lack of funds, because all these sites costs, plus census records, but its good fun all the same. Love programmes like who do you think you are.

[dotty.]

em when you encounter issues like that, where you have common surnames coupled with common overused Chrtistian names, you turn to the distaff side to establish that you have the right couple through marriages and baptisms, then you look at the siblings, occupations and location to identify the correct family group. This does work, and you can eliminate possibles until you have the correct one. I always fully research siblings on every line and this invariably helps to identify and verify my research.
I use the ancestry.co.uk pay monthly option which I vary depending on my finances, the fees start from £10.95 a month for the essentials option and £12.95 for the premium, i am paying £18.95 a month at the moment for the worldwide and I don't really need it, the £12.95 would do. You can cancel it at any time if you think you will not need the site.

[emmie]

Dotty i did use one, but finances were not going to stretch to keep it up, at least not for now. I could check in our parish church as my gran was married there, and in the local council for records. Most of the family seemed to have lived in the same area, but it goes back a long way, and offshoots to Ireland.

[dotty.]

the local council won't hold anything, only the local register office. You can book a computer in your local library however and from there access ancestry.co.uk on their internet for free and access all you need. They may restrict time slots if they are busy, but you';ll get alot done with that.

[whiskeryron]

jno perhaps it's me but what has your link ( http://www.theanswerb.../Question1027253.html ) got to do with this question?
Ron.