Barbara, At the time you are searching, no marriage could take place in a non-conformist church without the local superintendent registrar, or his deputy, being present. All marriages SHOULD therefore be in the GRO Marriage Index. I emphasise "should" because it is known that these indices (on which FreeBMD are based) have many errors and omissions. The Registrar General's certificates are being re-indexed as part of the DOVE project and should be appearing online sometime next year. Unfortunately even these certificates are copies and there is still the possibility that a certificate went missing before arriving at the GRO. (I have three such missing ones, only one of which I have been able to locate at a local registrar's.) It might be worth your while getting in touch with the local registrar of where you think the marriage might have taken place if you can't wait until 2009. There are a large number of Registrar's records now being published, district by district, on UKBMD, which you could try. http://www.ukbmd.org.uk/ Hope this might help Sandra Regards Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:35 PM Subject: Re: [HRT] LOVEJOY > Hi Elizabeth, > > Thanks for information, I think the reason they were in Essex was for > work. I have my grandfathers biorth cert and he was born there. I think > I may have found him but am no sure how to prove it. I'm wondering if > they married in a non-conformist church. > > Barbara >> >> From: "elizabeth howard" <[email protected]> >> Date: 2008/07/03 Thu AM 10:49:06 BST >> To: <[email protected]> >> Subject: [HRT] LOVEJOY >> >> Hi, in the 1871 it does look as if they might only have been married >> for >> a few years , their dau Elizabeth is 2 yrs old and they have Eliza >> Brockwell`s sister Jane living with them ......what is slightly odd is >> that >> they have moved from Kingston Surrey to Sheering in Essex ...... Eliza >> is >> in the 1861 born Kingston , living Kingston with her parents William and >> Hesiah both from Reading Berks . I only wonder now if he was married as >> Alfred James , there is an Eliza Brockwell married in the Mile End >> district >> , in June 1/4 of 1863 but I didn`t find a matching James Lovejoy >> ..........there were 6 James Lovejoys married between 1862 and 1869 but >> none >> with a matching Brockwell as far as I can see !! >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2008 10:18 PM >> Subject: [HRT] (no subject) >> >> >> >I am trying to locate my G.Grandfathers birth, according to the census >> >returns he says he was born in Hertfordshire. I have searched the BDMs >> >and >> >no trace, his name was James Alfred Lovejoy born somewhere around >> >1838-1840. Another thing is I can not find a marriage for him and his >> >wife >> >Eliza Brockwell, this event would have happened somewhere around 1865 + >> >or - a few years. >> > >> > My hope is that someone might be visiting HALS and might have a quick >> > look >> > at the parish records for a birth date. >> > Or can anyone give me any ideas how to move on. >> > >> > Barbara Spicer >> > >> > ----------------------------------------- >> > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email >> > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam >> > >> > >> > ------------------------------- >> > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> > without >> > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> No virus found in this incoming message. >> Checked by AVG. >> Version: 8.0.101 / Virus Database: 270.4.3/1529 - Release Date: 7/1/2008 >> 7:23 PM >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' >> without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ----------------------------------------- > Email sent from www.virginmedia.com/email > Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software and scanned for spam > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > _______________________________________ > No viruses found in this incoming message > Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.4.5 > http://www.iolo.com > _______________________________________ No viruses found in this outgoing message Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.4.5 http://www.iolo.com