Howard George Holmes - marriage 1894 - Bristol, St Paul

[cordley]

I am looking for the detail of the marriage between

26 Mar 1894  - Bristol, St Paul, Portland Square, Gloucestershire

• Holmes    Howard George        Bristol    6a   58   
• Pearce    Florence Annie        Bristol    6a   58

Parents' names, witnesses, where living etc as per marriage cert.

Does anyone have access to this, or shall I send for the certificate?

Thanks,  Pam

[Milliepede]

No image I'm afraid but it does give both parties as single and her father as John Pearce 

[Deirdre784]

Residence says Bristol, both were single and he was aged 24....

[Milliepede]

Likely he was illegitimate as no mothers maiden name on his birth registration and he seems unsure of his exact birthplace - 1901 has London n/k.

Registration was Pancras Jun 1869.

[Deirdre784]

Likely he was illegitimate as no mothers maiden name on his birth registration. 

Just about to post exactly the same thing!

[Deirdre784]

Possible sibling.... birth of Henry Lewis Holmes registered in Pancras in Dec quarter 1870, again no mother listed.

[cordley]

Spot on!! He is illegitimate, and goes missing from the census after birth in 1869 until after this marriage when I find him again in 1901.  I am having help in following his mother (Emily Holmes), and found her apart from 1871.  Mother's maiden name is given on birth cert but hadn't been transcribed onto GRO record (reported).

What I really want to know is where he was living at the time of his marriage.  His wife is a Bristol lady, but living in Streatham in 1891, which I believe is where he met her, where he was training/working as an upholsterer, until about 1906-11 when I find them living in Bristol for the rest of his life.

All help welcomed...  Pam

[cordley]

Possible sibling.... birth of Henry Lewis Holmes registered in Pancras in Dec quarter 1870, again no mother listed.

That's a new one to me - will investigate.  Pam

[Deirdre784]

.... he seems unsure of his exact birthplace - 1901 has London n/k.

Strange as he seems to know his death of birth. That given on the 1939 register would fit the birth registration quarter!