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I have another query I would like to ask if anyone can help me on. I am trying to get the dates on my tree validated by finding the evidence on the BDM but am struggling to find my grandparents marriage date on my mothers side! My mother was born in 1939 and I have searched from 1930-1940 and can't find any entries for their marriage, they were practicing catholics and I can't imagine that my mother would have been born out of wedlock but that is only my assumption. Where do I go with this now. HELP! Please

Carol

Have you found your mother's birth reg'n?

No I haven't searched it as I know that is correct would that give me more information?
Thanks
Carol

If the parents weren't married, she may be registered under the MMN.............just a thought..............

I've Just done that and that confirms her mothers maiden name and where she was born?

Carol

So if I order the cert then that will confirm whether her mum was married at the time?

Not a quick process is it.

Thanks for your help I will start with that.

Carol

Was your mother the eldest child?

Christine

Can you tell us thier names please so we can help.

Hi Christine
My mother was an only child!
Thanks
Carol

Hi Val
My grandfather was Herbert Reay c1910 my grandmother was Greta Robinson c1910 they had 1 daughter Pauline Reay 22/01/1939.

Thank you
Carol

Forgot to add that they we all from Lancaster!

It must be time for me to go to bed I have just amended my grand mothers name from Ethel Matcalfe (On my dad's side) SORRY! To Greta Robinson which is the correct grand mother.

I hope you get this before you look too far into it. I feel awful everyone has been so helpful and I go and give the wrong information.

Thanks again
Carol

The cert will not give you any more info than you have...........whether they were married.......or not...........is not recorded.

When you looked through the marriages 1930-1940 did you find any for Herbert Reay? Just wonderedif Greta had been married before and married with her 1st husband's name.

Just one thought


where did you look for their marriage??



For that time period, you have to look through the Complete Index on ancestry.co.uk, looking quarter by quarter year by year.



It is of course always possible that they did not marry, because they couldn't for some reason, but lived common law, and registered your mother's birth as if they were a married couple. You don't have to show proof of marriage to register a baby!



sylvia

I found this on the Lancashire bmd site. Do you think this is your Greta?????


Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1945

ROBINSON Greta BLAKE Eben Norton Witton, St Mark Blackburn CE32/7/22



sylvia

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from Lancashire bmds

Lancashire Marriage indexes for the years: 1933

REAY Robert Herbert ROBINSON Margaret Mary Lancaster Register Office or Registrar Attended Preston LANC/55/157




sylvia

could this be your grandfather's birth registration??? I know Penrith is in Cumbria, but it isn't that far from lancaster, if I remember correctly.

Births Sep 1909 (>99%)

REAY Herbert Penrith 10b 561



sylvia

your mother's birth registration

Pauline Reay, mmn Robinson, March quarter 1939, Lancaster, vol 8e page 791



sylvia

Yes If I remember correctly there were some For Herbert Reay, but I was also looking for his birth shortly before and may be mistaken with that! Not much help, sorry!

Carol