Hi Mel, Thank you. Possibly a silly question, but how did you get to Margaret WITHAM? By putting into the search fields volume 7b and page 1047, I only get 3 names - no Margaret. Searching for page 1017 there are also three names, so Margaret WITHAM's entry could be 1047. That would balance the numbers neatly and leave a possible marriage between David COCKERTON and Margaret WITHAM - who may or may not have been Margaret HARDWICK! Rosemary Northumberland UK Email: rosemary@rprobert.co.uk Family History: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rprobert/ Banburyshire Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/ On 18/04/2013 13:34, Mel Smith wrote: > Hi Rosemary > > FreeBMD has a facility for searching for missing spouses by looking at the > relevant page numbers for a district and quarter. > > For Chesterfield Q2 page 1047 there is an oddball number of entries again of > 3. In this case one of the names is Margaret WITHAM and looking at the image > the 4 is not clear and perhaps could be a 1. > Is it possible that Margaret HARDWICK married a WITHAM and David Cockerton > is her second husband? > > Mel Smith > Whitby, Ontario, Canada > > -----Original Message----- > From: derbysgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:derbysgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Rosemary Probert > Sent: April 18, 2013 7:32 AM > To: Derbyshire Mailing List > Subject: [DBY] Margaret HARDWICK and David COCKERTON > > Hello List, > > I'm trying to tie in some loose ends and I'm having difficulty finding a > marriage of Margaret HARDWICK born in 1862 in Brimington. > > I have found a possible Margaret in the 1891 census - aged 27 from > Brimington - she's the wife of a David COCKERTON. But I cannot find a > marriage of Margaret to David in FreeBMD. > > There is a marriage in 2Q 1881 of David Elijah COCKERTON, Chesterfield RD 7b > 1047 - but there are only 3 entries in the index for this page - could the > missing entry be Margaret? > > I have look at the original index page for Margaret HARDWICK > (1881M2-H-0105) for 2Q 1881 - and she is not there. > > Anyone any ideas?

Rosemary When you carry out a person search and then look at the resulting page (in this case 1047) you get the three names. Several lines below the list of names FreeBMD asks "have you found the person you are looking for or is a spouse missing". It then directs you to a link (something like can be found here)and if you follow these links and read the instructions you can do several searches to try and find missing persons or errors. One of them permits you to search individual pages in a given volume. In that search routine I input Chesterfield, 2nd qtr and 1881 and it gave a list of pages and the number of names on each page. In this case I saw page 1017 also had three people and when I looked at that page spotted a Margaret WITHAM and then looked at that image and saw the potential for mis-transcription due to the badly imaged 1 or 4.. By the way I since looked for a Margaret HARDWICK marriage to a WITHAM prior to 1881 without success. I think if one name in a marriage is there then the other must be somewhere in the index as the record did reach the GRO to be indexed. If neither name is there then there is a possibility that the marriage record never made it to the GRO to be indexed and you then need the local RO index or other methods to find marriages. If you happen to have read the books about the GRO Indexes and all the errors in them (I think the title is something like "A Comedy of Errors) If I recall the author postulates a potential of 10% errors in the indexes. I feel lucky that I haven't yet found an error in my list of ancestors. And that's not quite true. I can't find my grandmother in either the GRO or local RO indexes and I can only surmise her mother never registered the illegitimate birth. Lots of transcription errors in FreeBMD though because of the poor quality of some original pages and the errors made by the original clerks transcribing the local info into the GRO index. That's not the fault of FreeBMD or the volunteer transcribers. They are doing a fantastic job Mel Smith -----Original Message----- From: derbysgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:derbysgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Rosemary Probert Sent: April 18, 2013 9:37 AM To: derbysgen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DBY] Margaret HARDWICK and David COCKERTON Hi Mel, Thank you. Possibly a silly question, but how did you get to Margaret WITHAM? By putting into the search fields volume 7b and page 1047, I only get 3 names - no Margaret. Searching for page 1017 there are also three names, so Margaret WITHAM's entry could be 1047. That would balance the numbers neatly and leave a possible marriage between David COCKERTON and Margaret WITHAM - who may or may not have been Margaret HARDWICK! Rosemary Northumberland UK Email: rosemary@rprobert.co.uk Family History: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rprobert/ Banburyshire Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~engcbanb/ On 18/04/2013 13:34, Mel Smith wrote: > Hi Rosemary > > FreeBMD has a facility for searching for missing spouses by looking at > the relevant page numbers for a district and quarter. > > For Chesterfield Q2 page 1047 there is an oddball number of entries > again of 3. In this case one of the names is Margaret WITHAM and > looking at the image the 4 is not clear and perhaps could be a 1. > Is it possible that Margaret HARDWICK married a WITHAM and David > Cockerton is her second husband? > > Mel Smith > Whitby, Ontario, Canada <snip>