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[Diane Grant-Salmon]

If someone has a spare credit for 1837 Online, could they please look up my Marriage Ref for me?

I was married on the 26 November 1976 at Sale Register Office, Sale, Cheshire, the names are Gerald Robert GRANT-SALMON and Diane SHAW.
I have found out from someone that my Ref is wrongly listed somewhere else, so would like to check on this with this site.
Thankyou.

[Linda]

I'll do it Diane - just gimme a moment :)


Linda

[Linda]

Hi Diane

Sorry about the delay - 1837 online is moving like treacle!

Dec qtr, 1976

GRANT-SALMON, Gerald, R. married SHAW, Trafford, vol.39, page 14_3 (3rd no. unclear, could be 0 or 8)

SHAW, Diane married GRANT-SALMON, Trafford vol 39 page 1403
and
SHAW, Diane married SALMON, Trafford vol 39 page 1403A

Linda

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

Hi Diane

Sorry about the delay - 1837 online is moving like treacle!

Dec qtr, 1976

GRANT-SALMON, Gerald, R. married SHAW, Trafford, vol.39, page 14_3 (3rd no. unclear, could be 0 or 8)

SHAW, Diane married GRANT-SALMON, Trafford vol 39 page 1403
and
SHAW, Diane married SALMON, Trafford vol 39 page 1403A

Linda

Many thanks Linda :) In the last five minutes, I've just found out that the Ref I was given (which was for Coventry Reg District) was wrong, it was an error of reading the wrong line by my friend. These things happen, so I thought there was no problem. However, the correct info just received doesn't match the one you got, so now I am stuck!

Trafford vol 39 page 1433 :confused:

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

I have to go offline now ..... could some kind soul please look this up for me at the relevant place in London, sometime?

Thankyou.

[Linda]

Hi Diane


This is my opinion, but the entry for Gerry could be read as 1433 if one wasn't paying very close attention, however, even though the 3rd number is unclear, I doubt that it is a 3 because it is rounded at the top, unlike the fourth number, 3, which is flat at the top. (Unlike this font style where the 3 is rounded at the top - does that make sense?)

Linda

[Linda]

Oh heck - that hardly makes sense


In the font style used in the index, all the 3's have a flat stroke at the top, but the 3rd unclear number on Gerry's reference is rounded.

It looks as though the left side of that 3rd number didn't copy over properly, leaving it looking like a rounded top 3.

Linda

[hope full]

If you need to get the certificate, I'm sure if you put the rest of the reference numbers that ARE clear, on the application, you'll get it, no problem? I've applied for certs in the past, with similar confusion, and I've never had a problem.
I did take a look, and it is strange how the print pressure differs all through the figures. Slightly confusing.
At first sight I thought an incomplete zero or maybe eight, I could almost see a three after comparing print pressure of other zeros, eights and threes on the same page.
However, although it just might be a three, it doesn't have a flat top like the very clear threes have.
As Linda points out :) That hasn't helped much...sorry. Chinese whispers.
Hope

[Mythology]

"could some kind soul please look this up for me at the relevant place in London, sometime?"

Yes, but I probably won't be going until Tuesday 15th - the nearby LMA are shut for stocktaking at present and the two places go together on my rounds, so this week's jaunt will either be Woking, Ipswich or nowhere depending on pennies and energy.

[hope full]

I've crossed referenced Shaw to Grant-Salmon. It's entered twice as Linda has said
SHAW, Diane married GRANT-SALMON Trafford vol 39 page 1403
and
SHAW, Diane married SALMON Trafford vol 39 page 1403A
It's a zero.
Hope

[AnnB]

I've crossed referenced Shaw to Grant-Salmon. It's entered twice as Linda has said
SHAW, Diane married GRANT-SALMON Trafford vol 39 page 1403
and
SHAW, Diane married SALMON Trafford vol 39 page 1403A
It's a zero.
Hope
I agree with Hope.
Trust Diane to be registered twice :o

Best wishes
Ann

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

I've crossed referenced Shaw to Grant-Salmon. It's entered twice as Linda has said
SHAW, Diane married GRANT-SALMON Trafford vol 39 page 1403
and
SHAW, Diane married SALMON Trafford vol 39 page 1403A
It's a zero.
Hope

Thank you everyone for your help on this. :) After reading the messages here yesterday, I queried Gerry's Ref with my friend, who has written back to tell me that after cross referencing with my name of Shaw, she found the correct Ref then ...... the same as Linda and Hope found.

Thanks Myth :D for saying that you would check this lot for me, however, it's no longer necessary now, but maybe you could answer a question please? Why is my entry for Diane Shaw down twice ...... is this the norm with double-barrelled surnames, plus sticking the A at the end?

[Mythology]

"Why is my entry for Diane Shaw down twice ...... is this the norm with double-barrelled surnames, plus sticking the A at the end?"

I don't know if they always did it, but I've certainly come across it before. Although it may seem a bit pointless, that's because you're looking at your entry, not Gerry's. If you look him up under "S" rather than "G", which somebody might if they thought that Grant was his middle name, you should find that he's also listed twice - he should be there as "Salmon, Gerald R. G." with the same "A" added to the page number.
I'm guessing as to the purpose of the "A", but I imagine it's a message to the staff to say "Watch it when you look for this guy - this isn't exactly what it says in the register for his surname, it's hyphenated and the last bit is Salmon".

("A" for "Alternative" maybe?)

[Mythology]

Afterthought.

For all our criticisms, especially of the ham-fisted typists who can't even spell somewhere as well known as Stepney so gave us the previously unknown registration district of Stapney, etc., when done properly, the GRO index is actually quite good when it comes to alternatives.

Do you remember me mentioning my Thomasine Lowe, whose marriage is in the GRO index, not just FreeBMD, twice, with two different spellings of her first name?

It transpires that this is because the clerk used one spelling in the main part of the entry, but she used the other spelling in her signature - some of those GRO clerks did try!

[Diane Grant-Salmon]

Thanks Myth :D You've got the answer ...... now I just have to look in Rod's newest smileys to find the appropriate one, before I type anything else.

|rant| It's all Gerry's fault! Guess who told me when we married to always sign my name in full, otherwise I could run into trouble with Passports, Deeds etc. so I took his advice and do just that.

So who has always signed G. Salmon then?????? |nutkick|