Hi If you have had dealings with the GRO could please comment on what I am presuming to be an error in the marriage records. Frederick N COPPIN married Catherine BARKER in the first qtr 1899 in the Hitchin Registration District. Vol 3a page 603. He was a newly appointed station master aged 31 years at Birdbrook on the Colne Valley Railway Line. I don't know about her past. Catherine died in the registration district of Chesterton in the first qtr of 1901. Her age is given as 79 years. Vol 3b page 291. I have looked at the original scan. Fred never remarried and in 1902 was appointed Station Master at Halsted, a position he held until retirement. Any comments gratefully received. Norm Simcock on a sunny winters day in Queensland.

Hi Norm I take you mean the scan of the Index page? Don't forget the Death certs are looked at in isolation. When they are transcribed the person can only go by what they see on the cert - they don't try and get confirmation by checking with another source. Otherwise it could be a totally different Catherine Coppin. You won't really know unless you get the cert. Regards Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Norm Simcock To: Essex List Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 10:41 PM Subject: [Ess] GRO Death Records - COPPIN/BARKER Hi If you have had dealings with the GRO could please comment on what I am presuming to be an error in the marriage records. Frederick N COPPIN married Catherine BARKER in the first qtr 1899 in the Hitchin Registration District. Vol 3a page 603. He was a newly appointed station master aged 31 years at Birdbrook on the Colne Valley Railway Line. I don't know about her past. Catherine died in the registration district of Chesterton in the first qtr of 1901. Her age is given as 79 years. Vol 3b page 291. I have looked at the original scan. Fred never remarried and in 1902 was appointed Station Master at Halsted, a position he held until retirement. Any comments gratefully received. Norm Simcock on a sunny winters day in Queensland. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Any problems, please contact the List Admin: Essex-UK-admin@rootsweb.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ESSEX-UK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

You are inviting comments, but I don't know which part of your message you would like commenting on. My first thought is that you are only quoting from indexes, therefore need to buy certificates to expand on the limited data provided by those indexes. JK On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Norm Simcock <normejs@live.com.au> wrote: > Hi > > If you have had dealings with the GRO could please comment on what I am > presuming to be an error in the marriage records. > > Frederick N COPPIN married Catherine BARKER in the first qtr 1899 in the > Hitchin Registration District. Vol 3a page 603. He was a newly appointed > station master aged 31 years at Birdbrook on the Colne Valley Railway Line. > I don't know about her past. > > Catherine died in the registration district of Chesterton in the first qtr > of 1901. Her age is given as 79 years. Vol 3b page 291. I have looked at the > original scan. > > Fred never remarried and in 1902 was appointed Station Master at Halsted, a > position he held until retirement. > > Any comments gratefully received. > >