Hi Pete, As David has observed (thank you, David!), another reason could be marriages where the groom takes the bride's surname - although I would have thought that they would be a very small number. But as I am still into the transcription phase of my study and haven't even started deaths or census listings yet, I have to say that these investigations will need to remain firmly on the 'to do' list for the moment - unless I have a need for any particular birth to be investigated further. Actually, at the top of the list will be the need to try to resolve marriages where there were from one to three surnames of the bride or groom mentioned in the index. Les [email protected] wrote: > Les, > Thanks for the reply. Again I too have come across them in what almost amounts to a one name study. Have you investigated any of the family links behind same birth name and maiden name findings and statistically what was the outcome? I'm wondering how far up the to-do list that kind of investigation might need to be. > > Pete > > On Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:48:06 +0100, Leslie Bush <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> I have come across this many, many times in my one name study. >> >>