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Alexandra 1837online is the GRO index to births, marrriages and deaths. So are the complete images on ancestry. Freebmd are transcribed images, also available on ancestry. As I said before, you can only get more information than is in the index by buying the certificate. nell

You wont see anything different on 1837 - it is the same as the complete images on Ancestry (which is free)

OK il have a look into it and see what happens thanks for your help. one last thing if i buy some pay per views on 1837 does this show app year of birth or anything at all?

OK, I understand your problem better now. I guess the bottom line is - how badly do you want the information? You could order a marriage cert specifying groom's age within a span that would fit with 1924 birth, or specifying father's name to match that on birth cert I suppose. You have 3 possibles. If they are all wrong it will cost you £3 x 3 checks so that's maximum £9, or of course £6 for two wrong checked certs and £7 for the right one which will give you more clues. nell

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Ok James A Browning was born 1924 dec QTR in Southwark MMN Pickett He was put into the Shirley Oaks Childrens home in around the 1930 area maybe just after From then we have no information on him. LMA hold a file from the home on him but will not disclose me the information. I have been searching marriages from 1954 plus or minus 10 in the first entry i found the correct james will be around 20/21 and so forth.

Whereabouts was the home he was in, or don't you know?

Do the registration counties - Cheshire / Surrey / Essex - help in any way ?

Alexandra What do you know about James A Browning? Put the info here and we may be able to help. Have you got a rough idea of when he was born - you seem to feel he would have married in the 1940s, so I would guess he would have been born around 1910s-20s. nell

ok just not sure what to do now

Family search web site really only useful for 19th century or before

no idea am working with just his birth information this is all i know on him

Have just checked that website just says no matches

Do you know if James A Browning had any children??

Alexandra You can't find something if its not indexed. Ages at time of marriage aren't indexed and middle names sometimes aren't either. You can look for likely births in the births index (assuming most folk married between ages of 21-35). Some entries on www.familysearch.org give ages at time of marriage but most don't. nell

oh i see didnt know that about freebmd thanks

Alexandra - you wont find anything on freeBMD. For anything after 1910 you need to check the complete images. Sorry to say - only way to find ages is to buy the certificates.

Ok i see but is there anyway i can find age at marriage or middle inital meaning etc? freebmd doesnt have these entries thanks to all

You can check the names on the complete marriage indexes on Ancestry http://www.ancestry(.)co(.)uk/search/rectype/vital/freebmd/bmd.aspx for example - you have James A Browning married ? Francis Q1 1945 in Wallasey 8A 1313 select the year 1945 and enter the surname Francis. Scroll through Francis names until you find one that has the same reference as the one you have found (and of course with the spouses name as Browning)

The main info i am trying to find is Jame's middle name and age at marriage or year of birth. as it stands the right marriage could be anyone of the 3 as i dont know where he was living he was born in london and in a home in london thats the last we heard. thanks to all