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22-06-2009, 4:29 PM
This is the story of finding the answer before posting the question.
I was drafting a new post about my continued failure to find my Irish great-grandparents' marriage certificate when I noticed that one document I have said she was English. I had searched English records before without success, but tried again through the bmd index on Ancestry using her name, Louisa Jane Mesney, only. And lo, there she was! At least it was her name and a likely date listed in the index.
Then I searched on his name alone, and found him listed, not as Richard Louis Murrow, but as Richard Loius Murroy! The year and reference numbers matched. So they married in Totnes, Devon, England, not in Ireland at all, and because I had searched before on both names at once, the misspelling prevented a find.
The next step is to get a researcher to get the actual certificate for me and look up some other possibilities and then make a trip to Totnes. I am so thrilled!
I was drafting a new post about my continued failure to find my Irish great-grandparents' marriage certificate when I noticed that one document I have said she was English. I had searched English records before without success, but tried again through the bmd index on Ancestry using her name, Louisa Jane Mesney, only. And lo, there she was! At least it was her name and a likely date listed in the index.
Then I searched on his name alone, and found him listed, not as Richard Louis Murrow, but as Richard Loius Murroy! The year and reference numbers matched. So they married in Totnes, Devon, England, not in Ireland at all, and because I had searched before on both names at once, the misspelling prevented a find.
The next step is to get a researcher to get the actual certificate for me and look up some other possibilities and then make a trip to Totnes. I am so thrilled!