Seer Green Holy Trinity itself.
On the other hand, the marriage locator website might be in error as there are quite a lot of pages where it says 'can't locate the church for this marriage'.
If you look on FreeBMD for marriages in Amersham registration district for March quarter 1903 there are not a lot. Admittedly, FreeBMD is not yet complete.but there's a total of 26 men listed and 26 women. There are also, except for 942 and 943, an even number of men and women on each of the page numbers, so I would think it's fairly safe to say that the district is complete for that quarter.
You now need to read https://www.marriage-locator.co.uk/principles.html
I can't remember in which order non-conformist churches/chapels and the Register Office appear in the GRO Index - I think the Register Office is last, but I'm not sure and at the moment I can't access the site where I know the information is available. But the CofE churches are all listed first.
If you do purchase the certificate (or get any info from the GRO ) then can you please either send a message to the Guild of One-Name Studies (who are the brains behind the marriage locator site), or else let me know because I know a member of GOONS.
Pam
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many many thanks for all your time and explanations
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Thanks for the update, wimsey.
I've decided to send the details direct to GOONS.
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The GRO has altered their index many times over the years and is still doing so.
The original parchment index is a handwritten index stored at Southport but is rarely consulted these days and is acknowledged to contain hundreds or errors and many omissions. In addition there are many copies and augmented editions some handwritten and some typed.
Write to GRO, Southport with your corrections and if they have time (or can be bothered) they may amend their index but do not hold your breath.
Incidentally FreeBMD also contains many errors and omissions as it is based on the error and omission based GRO index, which they, unfortunately have to consider as an accurate index.
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