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The Common Room / Re: 2 Crosses and a Capstick, where did they go?
« on: Today at 10:01 »The use of both Cross and Capstick for Ellen's second marriage would usual suggests divorce from rather than death of the first husband, but here you say Richard Capstick definitely died
Sorry jaywit - a small diversion from your query for anyone who doesn't know this.
The GRO marriage index, at some times, shows a divorced woman indexed both under her previous married name and her maiden name.
I don't think that widows are indexed this way at any time, although of course the certificate itself will normally give both names.
The UKBMD indexes https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/
(which don't cover all counties) sometimes show maiden and previous married names for marriages, and also birth registrations, regardless of whether the wife/mother was widowed or divorced. I don't know what governs whether they are shown or not, but I know that they aren't always.