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Offline julieann1

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How do I find out if a marriage cert still exists?
« on: Monday 19 January 09 09:25 GMT (UK) »
I have the date and place of the marriage between Edward McAlister and Catherine Ryan from parish records.

http://www.louth.brsgenealogy.com/

 How do I find out if there marriage cert is in existence, without ordering it and paying for it first?

They married in Cooley in 1876.
BELL;TWEEDIE;PITTILLO/PATTILLO;WATSON;JOHNSTONE;PALMER;MOFFAT:DOBIE;BEATTIE:-Dumfrieshire<br />HYSLOP;MANSON;CURRIE;JAMIESON;BEATTIE:-Ayr<br />HOOKER;DYSON;SEABROOKE;DYER;DREWELL;STOCKWELL;CRIPPS;-London<br />DEVOS:London, Belguim
BENDALL-Bristol<br />WOODEN/WOODIN;JARRETT-Surrey<br />MURCH;HARRIS;POPE:-Devon QUARM-Devon,London,Anywhere<br />RUMBLE;HIBBERD;-Wilts
MARTIN - Dorset,Somerset;
PITTUCK/PITTOCK:-Suffolk.
WILSON;BARNEY;WINDES/WINDERS;ELLIS - Yorkshire;MARSTON;HALLAM - Notts;

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Re: How do I find out if a marriage cert still exists?
« Reply #1 on: Monday 19 January 09 10:32 GMT (UK) »
Are you trying to find the church record or the civil record of the marriage? GRO, Dublin should have the civil marriage certificate and it can be ordered- only problem might be that McAlister is under another spelling like McAllister, McCallister, etc.
www.groireland.ie/apply_for_a_cert.htm
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Re: How do I find out if a marriage cert still exists?
« Reply #2 on: Monday 19 January 09 10:38 GMT (UK) »
Thanks
Civil Record.  I read somewhere that some had been destroyed in 1922?
Is this straight in with a request for a cert - no indexes to check spellings?
BELL;TWEEDIE;PITTILLO/PATTILLO;WATSON;JOHNSTONE;PALMER;MOFFAT:DOBIE;BEATTIE:-Dumfrieshire<br />HYSLOP;MANSON;CURRIE;JAMIESON;BEATTIE:-Ayr<br />HOOKER;DYSON;SEABROOKE;DYER;DREWELL;STOCKWELL;CRIPPS;-London<br />DEVOS:London, Belguim
BENDALL-Bristol<br />WOODEN/WOODIN;JARRETT-Surrey<br />MURCH;HARRIS;POPE:-Devon QUARM-Devon,London,Anywhere<br />RUMBLE;HIBBERD;-Wilts
MARTIN - Dorset,Somerset;
PITTUCK/PITTOCK:-Suffolk.
WILSON;BARNEY;WINDES/WINDERS;ELLIS - Yorkshire;MARSTON;HALLAM - Notts;

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Re: How do I find out if a marriage cert still exists?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 19 January 09 10:40 GMT (UK) »
Index to marriages not available online. The civil birth, death and marriage records were not destroyed.
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Re: How do I find out if a marriage cert still exists?
« Reply #4 on: Monday 19 January 09 10:42 GMT (UK) »
 :)  Cheers.  The prospect of going back a generation has just opened up!
BELL;TWEEDIE;PITTILLO/PATTILLO;WATSON;JOHNSTONE;PALMER;MOFFAT:DOBIE;BEATTIE:-Dumfrieshire<br />HYSLOP;MANSON;CURRIE;JAMIESON;BEATTIE:-Ayr<br />HOOKER;DYSON;SEABROOKE;DYER;DREWELL;STOCKWELL;CRIPPS;-London<br />DEVOS:London, Belguim
BENDALL-Bristol<br />WOODEN/WOODIN;JARRETT-Surrey<br />MURCH;HARRIS;POPE:-Devon QUARM-Devon,London,Anywhere<br />RUMBLE;HIBBERD;-Wilts
MARTIN - Dorset,Somerset;
PITTUCK/PITTOCK:-Suffolk.
WILSON;BARNEY;WINDES/WINDERS;ELLIS - Yorkshire;MARSTON;HALLAM - Notts;

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Re: How do I find out if a marriage cert still exists?
« Reply #5 on: Monday 19 January 09 11:05 GMT (UK) »
Just remember that marriage certificate will not list the mothers' names but should list the names of occupations of the fathers.
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Re: How do I find out if a marriage cert still exists?
« Reply #6 on: Monday 19 January 09 11:06 GMT (UK) »
Yep, but this one is such hard work it seems like a massive ray of light!  ;D
BELL;TWEEDIE;PITTILLO/PATTILLO;WATSON;JOHNSTONE;PALMER;MOFFAT:DOBIE;BEATTIE:-Dumfrieshire<br />HYSLOP;MANSON;CURRIE;JAMIESON;BEATTIE:-Ayr<br />HOOKER;DYSON;SEABROOKE;DYER;DREWELL;STOCKWELL;CRIPPS;-London<br />DEVOS:London, Belguim
BENDALL-Bristol<br />WOODEN/WOODIN;JARRETT-Surrey<br />MURCH;HARRIS;POPE:-Devon QUARM-Devon,London,Anywhere<br />RUMBLE;HIBBERD;-Wilts
MARTIN - Dorset,Somerset;
PITTUCK/PITTOCK:-Suffolk.
WILSON;BARNEY;WINDES/WINDERS;ELLIS - Yorkshire;MARSTON;HALLAM - Notts;
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