Additions to GRO marriage index

[LizzieL]

I'd wondered that, or the marriage with the 1431 page ref. I'll look into the newspaper reports.

[Mean_genie]

It was probably a church marriage. Copies of all marriages for the quarter were made by the clergy, and sent to the Superintendent Registrar to be forwarded to the General Register Office, along with the registrars' quarterly returns of births and deaths. In practice, some clergy were late sending in their copies (and in some cases they didn't send them at all). If they arrived after the rest of the quarterly returns had been collated into volumes, and already given page numbers, they could be inserted into the right place in the sequence, with page numbers ending in a (or b or c if there was more than one page of late returns from that church). These 'a' references often appear as write-ins at the bottom of the index page, but sometimes you can see them incorporated into the main index - this could happen happen if they arrived after the returns had been 'paged' but before the indexing was complete

[Gadget]

Yes, that's what I suggested might well have happened