T I am thinking now about other ways of confirming her identity (the marriage cert for the most likely marriage - in 1875 - only confirms names, not that she is then the one we see in 1881). I am going to try certs for later children to see if she felt able to put her maiden name on them.
If you get that marriage cert, it
will may give you her age at marriage and it will give you her father's name and occupation. You can then try to match up that age with her age on later censuses and also to match her birthplace from the later censuses with a girl, her age, her father and birthplace from 1861 and 1871 censuses. If there are several possible matches, you could also try to pin down what happened to those other girls from 1881 on. Hope you understand that - I'm aware it sounds rather complicated!
If it was me doing this, I'd buy just one cert at a time, because the first one you buy may solve the mystery, but if it doesn't, it will only take a week or so for the next one to come from the GRO.
