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Offline BumbleB

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Re: Marriage entries
« Reply #18 on: Thursday 07 February 19 07:44 GMT (UK) »
Thank you, Boo.  I believe that AntonyMMM has answered my query.   
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
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Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

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Re: Marriage entries
« Reply #19 on: Thursday 07 February 19 09:39 GMT (UK) »
Sometimes you will find images online of the original register.  I remember one marriage where a cleric had entered the bride's surname as Heywood (a town in Lancashire not far from the marriage, as it happens) but she had signed, in very different handwriting, as Hayward - which was probably the correct spelling, she should know.

Just shows that the recorder writes whatever he/she thinks she hears.  Beware.
Tarr, Tydeman, Liversidge, Bartlett, Young

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Re: Marriage entries
« Reply #20 on: Thursday 07 February 19 09:58 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Andrew.  Yes, I'm well aware of that fact regarding mis-hearing or mis-spelling and have come across it many, many times.  However, in this instance that was not my query, and I am more than satisfied with AntonyMMM's response.

Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

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Re: Marriage entries
« Reply #21 on: Thursday 07 February 19 10:05 GMT (UK) »
Just to say that AnthonyMMM has reiterated what I said, but in much more detail - and more elegantly!

Thank you,
Melbell


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Re: Marriage entries
« Reply #22 on: Thursday 07 February 19 10:18 GMT (UK) »
Apologies, Melbel, I should have acknowledged your response.   :'( :'(
Transcriptions and NBI are merely finding aids.  They are NOT a substitute for original record entries.
Remember - "They'll be found when they want to be found" !!!
If you don't ask the question, you won't get an answer.
He/she who never made a mistake, never made anything.
Archbell - anywhere, any date
Kendall - WRY
Milner - WRY
Appleyard - WRY

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Re: Marriage entries - COMPLETED with thanks!
« Reply #23 on: Thursday 07 February 19 17:53 GMT (UK) »
BumbleB - no apology needed, but thanks all the same.

Melbell