**COMPLETED** HUDDERSFIELD MARRIAGE 1865

[broadysword]

 Anychance someone knows or can confirm for me the identity of the bride who married a ALFRED HIRST in the Sept qtr 1865 in the district of Huddersfield. The census of 1871 gives her first name as Elizabeth. Can find no Elizabeth on freebmd or Yorkshire marriages on Ancestry. Would welcome any help in solving her surname.

[lizdb]

If you look at the imagefor that marriage, the ref is 4a 977,  not 971 as it has been indexed.

If you look for others with that ref, you find

Joseph Garside
Elizabeth Hirst
Ann Whiteley
4th groom missing

So, one can conclude the 4 th groom is your Alfred, and he married Elizabeth Hirst - maybe a cousin or second cousin or some other distant rellie?

[BumbleB]

In case anyone else thinks of reporting the error to FreeBMD - I have done so.  The page for Alfred Hirst is 477, but as it is a hand-written index page it is easy to mis-transcribe it as 471 

Therefore lizdb is correct. 

[broadysword]

Amazing, many thanks to both of you. Your detective work has solved a puzzle for me at least. I could not be sure but I believed Elizabeth could also have the surname of Hirst.
My grateful thanks once again.

[avm228]

It may or may not be her maiden name - could be a previous married name. There are so many Hirsts in the Huddersfield area that it's not that surprising to find them marrying each other