Firstly, Macwill, I meant that I didn't originally seen the hints but thank you.
Jane Adamson, my great grandmother was briefly married and widowed in 1889/90 before taking up with George Leggett my great grandfather.
The main reason I am interested in finding the second marriage certificate if it exists is to be sure about what their respective parents did for jobs as there is some doubt about the parents.
Can anyone tell me, how likely is it that a father's name could appear incorrectly on a transcribed certificate, without the (literate) bride ever being aware.
The bride was called Jane Adamson and her father is named as Edward Adamson, engineer, but we believe that Jane was raised by her father, Edwin Potter, but Jane continued to use her mother's maiden name as she was conceived before the marriage to Edwin Potter.
So after a lot of research I think it is feasible that somebody misheard the name Edwin and wrote Edward, and assumed that because the bride's surname was Adamson it was believed that the father's name would also be Adamson. Sherlock Holmes said that once you rule out the impossible, whatever is left, however unlikely, that is the solution.
I have looked at census entries for 1871, 1881, and 1891 for every Edward Adamson in the country and the closest to an engineer I was able to get were a gas fitter and a boilermaker, neither of which would really be described as engineers. Both of these were described as single men.
Can anyone with local knowledge of Durham or North Yorkshire, where the wedding would have taken place, in 1889 if there was one, give any further suggestions?
Martin