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The Common Room / Transcription puzzle - bride and groom mix-up
« on: Thursday 22 August 19 10:33 BST (UK) »
I'm transcribing Essex parish registers for FreeREG and have come across a strange entry in the marriage registers. The bride and groom are John Binks and Mary Roberts, but the people who sign the register are Thos Hammond? and Mary Keys! Who are they?!
Lo and behold, in the next entry (which is overleaf but on the same date), Thomas Hammond marries Mary Keys but the signatures are for John Binks and Mary Robards.
I'm sticking to the mantra of "transcribe what you see", so I'm transcribing the names as written by the curate and putting an explanation in the "notes" column about the signatures not matching. The only different in detail between the two marriages is the names of the witnesses.
Anyone else come across something like this, and how would you transcribe it?
Lo and behold, in the next entry (which is overleaf but on the same date), Thomas Hammond marries Mary Keys but the signatures are for John Binks and Mary Robards.
I'm sticking to the mantra of "transcribe what you see", so I'm transcribing the names as written by the curate and putting an explanation in the "notes" column about the signatures not matching. The only different in detail between the two marriages is the names of the witnesses.
Anyone else come across something like this, and how would you transcribe it?