Duplicate register entry with different surname

[pramclub]

Found a marriage that I'm sure is the one I want - but the register page lists it twice. Leonard R marries Gillian A (Surname), then again marries Gillian A (Surname 2) both on same page.

I'm sure I've seen this situation before, but this isn't a transcript error - wife's surnames are totally different.

I'm doing this for a very distant relative by marriage who I don't know well, so I don't want to ask if they know anything about it until I'm sure what's going on!

 

[juliejtp]

Hi,

Looks like the bride was married before. Have you found any children with mothers maiden name that matches?

 

[pramclub]

I haven't looked at the children yet, apart from the one making the query with me. Seems an odd way to list if the bride has two previous names - she can only be married under her current legal name. But this was the seventies - so who knows what was happening!

Thanks for that suggestion.

 

[ptjw7]

You just never know, I have seen it where the bride had 3 names listed (married twice + single name)
Married women do not have to have the husbands name, it is not a legal requirement.

Peter

 

[pramclub]

After a couple of hours in the library, I found it was two men, with the same name, who both married women with the same first name and middle initial on the same day at the same place!