Finding Marriage Cert - am I doing this the right way ?

[johnberman]

Hi

So I have my Mothers Birth Certificate and I now have full names of her parents (my G Parents)

My Mother was born in 1947 - so I made an assumption that her parents married when they were 20 and started searching Family Search.org from 1927 and then went either way- I did find a a possible with a marriage in 1930 making my G Mother 17 when she got married, possible I suppose, when I view the record it only contains references so I don't see for that record who the husband is - so I could order it and see what turns up

Am I search the right way - or am i missing something ?

Regards
John Berman

[Lostris]

Sorry, just noticed its Ireland ..... ignore my FreeBMD stuff !

[Sinann]

You need to search for both the husband and wife separately.
You are looking for both names to appear in the same Reg District, same Vol number and same Page number and the same year and quarter.

[johnberman]

thanks, will try that and see how i get on

Regards
John Berman

[Holly Golightly]

Hi John,

I think you may have your dates wrong here. If your mother was born in 1947 her parents marriage should be just before that depending where she came in the birth order. I would be looking at 1937-1947ish. If you can supply the names if they are deceased someone may be able to help search for you and point you in the right direction. Their birth years would be closer to 1927 if they were 20 when she was born.

Holly

[johnberman]

Holly, yes of course it makes sense now - I was going back to birth rather than marriage - thanks

John b

[johnberman]

hmm so this is hard work, I have two search windows open using family search records, in one window im searching for the grandmother Annie Campbell, year by year say 1946 and if it shows a marriage I search for the husband John Dunne so see if there is a marriage for the same year and see if its the same volume, page number etc - never knew it was so time consuming - are there any other indexs one can search, in case I find nothing ?
Regards
John Berman

[Elwyn Soutter]

Was this marriage in Northern Ireland by any chance? If so you won’t find it on-line. Familysearch only have NI marriages up to 31.12.1921. And the GRONI site only has them up to 1939.

For a marriage in N. Ireland in the 1940s you need to get in touch with GRONI in Belfast and get them to search for you. (There will be a fee for that).

[johnberman]

Married in Dublin I believe

John B