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Hi Kath, I've just asked if you can find my Barnston LODGE baptisms and here you are offering to look up marriages too ! Thank you so much !
Ruth

Thanks for that link Findem,I've found some names and dates I needed, on there.What a lot of hard work must have gone into entering all those records on data bases ! I've emailed Reverend Bond to thank him.
Ruth

Hi Paul, thank you for your reply. I have a copy of the birth certificate of my gt grandmother Ruth Oxley b1851,her birth was registered by her mother, who is on the certificate as Jane Markham.I contacted the transcriber of it,on the BMD web site and he said that Martin must have been misheard as Markham, as Martin was the name on the transcribing list. Jane was illiterate, she signed with a X so she'd not have known the name had been written wrongly. He said there is no Jane Markham.Yet surely whoever wrote out the original certificate would have checked her maiden  surname by saying it back to her ? 
Unfortunately I don't have the finances to send for certificates,especially as it might not be the right one.On the census returns,Jane is just shown as born Durham, so I don't even know whereabouts.
I was hoping someone reseraching the same family history may be able to help.
Ruth

Could anyone with access to the Essex Baptism index look up the baptisms of my ancestors for me please.
They were all born in the Great Burstead/Billericay area I think.
Josiah Ockendon/Dorothy Green , they were married in 1752 Joseph Ockendon/Alice Chapman ,they were married in 1783

Thank you so much,
Ruth