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None of which detracts from the point I made - that sources such as this are not infallible.
Very true point.
Took us ages before we fathomed out why we couldn't find an ancestor's baptism because of the mistake on her marriage certificate. Thankfully there wasn't another in the area with a different profession or we may have gone researching an entirely wrong line.
In fact we've an ancestor who appears to have married for the second time as a spinster after her first husband died, albeit that she used her married name. Now this was pre-registration so can't be confirmed for definite that the entry is incorrect as no father's name. Interestingly, one of the witnesses to the second marriage had the same surname as one to her first marriage, and not a common surname, so could well have been related. Additionally, there is only one family of the bride's surname in the area and nobody had a daughter of that name. Perhaps the most crucial piece of evidence was the age on her burial, as she was 20 years older than her second husband (so wouldn't have been a daughter from the first marriage), which, as with yourself , suggested she probably was the widow of that name and an error was made on the marriage entry. As she, along with most of the family, were illiterate, I doubt anyone would have spotted it anyway.
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