Better, Do you have an idea of who this missing person should be. If you do then search for that persons name in the GRO index as available on Ancestry, www.ancestry.co.uk If you find that persons name there and if it has the same volume and page numbers a the person you have already found on FreeBMDs transcript then it is likely to be the person who married your ancestor. But the only way to be sure is of course to order a copy of the marriage cert. >From what you have written in your reply below, "The other databases, e.g. GRO/BMD @ Ancestry.com, are consistent with the freebmd " it seems to me that you may have gone to the ancestry site and only looked at the FreeBMD transcript there and have not looked at the GRO index itself. The GRO index on the ancestry site is, to all intents and purposes, complete from July 1837-1983 whereas FreeBMD is, as yet, an incomplete transcription of that original GROindex. But maybe you do not know the name of the elusive other half of the marriage that you seek. If that is the case then you need to find the name of the spouse by perhaps finding the birth certificate of at least one of the children from that marriage and seeing what the father's name is. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<Thanks to those who took the time to help me sort out the possible reasons for a missing entry (male) in the Freebmd marriage database; especially Margaret, Jenny, John & Colin. The other databases, e.g. GRO/BMD @ Ancestry.com, are consistent with the freebmd so I will continue, from time to time, to check the various Indices for the missing entry. >> Best wishes, Bette