The GRO says they are not related?

[Wendi]

Oh, PLEASE can someone help me,

Claude Ambrose Scott m Beatrice Laura Evans, sometime after about 1925.

1904, Abertillery - Beatrice Laura Evans born. Certificate says parents as Charles Evans and Maud Evans, formerly Scott.

1898, Llanhilleth - marriage of Charles Evans, 27 Father Matthew Evans and Maud Isabella Scott 21.  No father listed.

1901 Census – Llanfrechfa Upper Daughter Maud Scott age 19 Marriage: I think it is a Y for Yes, born Pontnewydd.

1901 Census – Abertillery Charles Evans age 30, wife Maud age 22 born Abertillery

What is going on here?  i can't see the Evans for the Scott's 

[Little Nell]

1901 Census – Llanfrechfa Upper Daughter Maud Scott age 19 Marriage: I think it is a Y for Yes, born Pontnewydd.  I can follow the line of the Head of this family as mine back to 1796.

This is your problem.  It is an "S" for single not Y for married in that column.  Also if in 1898 she is 21, then why is she suddenly only 19 again 3 years later, with her parents, same name Scott rather than Evans?  That census entry is a red herring if Maud Scott married Charles Evans in 1898 is correct.

1901 Census – Abertillery Charles Evans age 30, wife Maud age 22 born Abertillery

Unfortunately both cannot be correct.

The index on Ancestry for this time IS NOT complete.  You need to search 1837online or other fee-paying service to search the whole index.  I think you need to look at the 1891 census for Maud Scott born 1878-1882, which is the age range you have between the two.

Nell

[Wendi]

Little Nell, thank you so much for replying.

I've seen so many census errors that I think I am taking them a bit too much for granted!

I will go and sort your other suggestions tomorrow but the on the 1901 Census : S & Y I was so sure 'cos the script is clear, the two eldest daughters? perhaps they changed 'cos the sloping S is easier to write........ heck, maybe I am just seeing things

[Wendi]

Today I received the birth certificate for Maud Scott.  Born June 1881, so I have to presume that she is not the Maud Scott who married in 1898, just as you said Little Nell.

Although she is on the 1901 Census (above) age 19.  She is not with the rest of the family on the 1891 Census, and I can't find her on that Census at all, no matter.

As the child was born in 1904 I am I must now look backwards from that date for her parents marriage

Wendi