Marriage indexes - accuracy of names

L1011

How accurate are the names on the marriage indexes, particularly older ones? This being from 1878.

I've not been able to find a marriage for my g-g-grandfather and g-g-grandmother, although I have him and his second wife from much later.

The only possible I've found through major digging on family search is one with the correct but common enough name for the wife, but with an "Edwd" Duffy on the same page. His name was Maurice but his father's name was Edward

Could there be a screwup on the index, e.g. a middle name getting transcribed in part as nothing else was legible?

It is possible its him and he lied - he may have been trying to hide his marriage from work (RIC man who married a local without permission, we know he was fined £4 and transferred station for it...)

https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FY7M-1J7 / https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FY7M-1JW are the two records

shanew

it looks like those are on different page ?

Edwd on 166, Ellen on 169 - so not a potential couple

L1011

****e, linked the wrong Ellen Boyle. There is one on 166 (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/FY7S-Z3X). Its a common name in that area.

googled eyes

Could it be that he was christened/baptised Edward but called Maurice ? This happened quite a bit in a branch of my family. For 3 generations girls were called Mary Ellen and known as Ellen.

Also one of my aunts is known by her middle name to this day.

shanew

A cert showing his occupation, plus his father's details is probably the best way to check by comparing his his known 2nd marriage

L1011

googled eyes wrote: »

Could it be that he was christened/baptised Edward but called Maurice ? This happened quite a bit in a branch of my family. For 3 generations girls were called Mary Ellen and known as Ellen.

Also one of my aunts is known by her middle name to this day.

Have his baptism cert, just Maurice there, but there is an ongoing tradition of that in the family...