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Marriage Cert?

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  • 05-01-2016 5:52pm
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    clashburke
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭


    I have a marriage for James Jordan to Kate Walsh in Clonegal on 15 September 1878, But I can't find them in the BMD index!

    A child James was born on May 2 1879 in the local workhouse. Would the marriage just not have been registered if they were poor:confused:

    Cheers

    The Marriage:
    http://137.191.249.36/registers/vtls000634449#page/10/mode/1up


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    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    the record directly above doesn't seem to be indexed either..

    based on the other marriages before and after, the Registration district covering this parish is Shillelagh


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    shanew
    Registered Users Posts: 2,777 ✭✭✭shanew


    Looks like there may have been a delay or gap passing on the marriage details to the local registrar, or on to the GRO, as the entry immediately following your Jordan Walsh marriage (Fitzpatrick/Donohoe) 17th Sept is indexed under the 4th quarter when it should have been in by the 3rd quarter. The last entry on the previous page (Rice/Hinch) dated 13th Aug is correctly listed as 3rd quarter


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    clashburke
    Registered Users Posts: 172 ✭✭clashburke


    shanew wrote: »
    the record directly above doesn't seem to be indexed either..

    based on the other marriages before and after, the Registration district covering this parish is Shillelagh

    Yes Shillelagh is the district for both addresses listed and for the workhouse on the baptism cert also.

    Slipped through the cracks maybe?


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    KildareFan
    Registered Users Posts: 683 ✭✭✭KildareFan


    Very odd indeed. The records are inconsistent as some entries have parents' names, some don't. There's a note on the next page that Rev Patrick Dunne PP died 22 Jan 1880, so maybe he was getting forgetful in his old age. He died aged 65 so not so old, but maybe was ill for the previous couple of years and not too good with the paperwork.


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    VirginiaB
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭VirginiaB


    The index is not perfect. I have found errors in it when able to access the original civil record images. And of course the person responsible for sending on the church info to the civil authorities made have slipped up.


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    The Chieftain
    Registered Users Posts: 298 ✭✭The Chieftain


    VirginiaB wrote: »
    The index is not perfect. I have found errors in it when able to access the original civil record images. And of course the person responsible for sending on the church info to the civil authorities made have slipped up.

    The civil registration system maintains TWO copies of every record. There is the original, from the originating registration district, and the central GRO copy. In this case, it sounds like the OP should request that the GRO either search the original local record, or grant access to the same. The original, local marriage registers are usually quite small, and easily searched by time/name.


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