Comedy or errors is very apt Stan as even me a novice is beginning to find out I often think especially with Census info that what the enumerator heard and what they were told is two different things I know this is a bit off topic but a boss of mine had a Chinese Whisper Tale The guy at the front to the army line said Send reinforcements we are going to advance The guy at the back got told Send 3 & 4 pence we are going to a dance Isn't genealogy research much the same but all makes for good fun Cheers Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <Stanmapstone@aol.com> To: <ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2005 2:31 PM Subject: Re: Fw: [SUNDERLAND] Thomas Wm Brown & Elizabeth Todd, Sunderland > In a message dated 20/03/2005 10:23:49 GMT Standard Time, > derek.phillips2@ntlworld.com writes: > Sally if you play with free BMD on the December quarter 1904 there is an > Elizabeth Todd & Thomas William Brown for marriages Sunderland but they are > on different pages > I will stand corrected in that I think this is possible in that the spouse > is not always on the same page? > > >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > If you look at the entry for Thomas William Brown the ref. is 10a 874. For > this page there are five people listed, instead of the normal four, and apart > from Thomas William the others are in Chester le Street, this entry is wrong > because on the original image it is Sunderland 10a 984. > It has been wrongly transcribed ror FreeBMD. This does not help much, > because only a Mary Smith has so far been transcribed for this page > Marriages Dec 1904 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Smith Mary Sunderland 10a 984 > > Indexing errors in the GRO records are quite possible because of the copying > process involved in creating the indexes. > Michael Foster has written two books on the marriage records of England and > Wales titled 'A comedy of Errors'. Although covering 1837-1899 similar errors > could occur in other years > He states that Volume numbers were often copied wrongly and page numbers > were a major problem. > See _http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mikefost/_ > (http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/mikefost/) > Regards Stan Mapstone > www.mapstone.org > > > > ==== ENG-DUR-SUNDERLAND Mailing List ==== > Genuki Sunderland pages, > http://website.lineone.net/~pjoiner/genuki/DUR/Sunderland/index.html > >