Double entries?

[British Viking]

Just looking through the marriages list of other people with same surname as mine but totally (I think!) unrelated to me and I've noticed a curiousity - seemingly double entries!

There's quite a few of them but won't list them all for fear of sending you all into a slumber..... I'll just list one:
Moller, Zandra to Fortes-Roberts AND Roberts at Bury St Edmunds, both sharing the same ref numbers, 4b 780/5 marriages April-June 1970. I spotted quite a few others like this.

Anybody know what this is all about? Hope the vicar/registrar then was quite sober at the occassion and did'nt ddouble bbook tthem?

:no:

[notanotherminer]

What I know for certain BV as it happened in my case is that if a person was known by slightly varying names both names were entered into the register. In my case my ex wife was known throughout her life by a different surname to her birth name
When I applied some time ago for my wife's grandmothers marriage cerificate for her 2nd marriage I was surprised when I looked at the page on FreeBMD to note that she was entered twice - under her maiden name and previously married name. The 2 didn't indicate any connection but appeared as if it were 2 differentn people with the same first name

In the example you gave he may have been known as Roberts OR Fortes Roberts

[cicilysmith]

One of my sisters married someone with a double-barrelled surname by which he was always known, and had been born with, but in the registers there are two entries so that both halves of the surname are indexed, cicilysmith

[Peter Goodey]

This is the normal way of indexing a marriage where one of the partners was known by more than one name or there was some ambiguity. For example "Jane Smith otherwise Brown" would be indexed under both Jane Smith and Jane Brown.