John Scott wrote: > JAMES HAWKINGS married about 1848, according to GRO index could be either MARY ANN DUNN or MARY ANN WHITE, > BUT in the census she is listed as SARAH and they are in Bishops Hull. It would be advisable to obtain a birth certificate for one of the children of James and Sarah to verify the mother's maiden name. Strange things can happen in genealogical records - in fact there has been an entire book written about the errors in marriage registrations - and it can be dangerous to draw conclusions based on an index roughly fitting one's own assumptions about the facts. Vivien