Karen wrote: || "Wendy Howard" <wendy.howard@gmail.com> wrote in message || news:mailman.304.1257800460.11746.genanz@rootsweb.com... ||| Hi Karen, ||| |||| I have now received my New Zealand Birth certificate of |||| Mary Walker. Parents are Robert Walker carpenter and |||| wife Johanna Corkery. I found a marriage of a Johana |||| Corkery to Robert Walker in the index, will this marriage |||| have parents details listed? ||| ||| I have no personal interest in these people. ||| ||| Whether the parents should be recorded on a marriage depends on ||| when the marriage took place. Take a look at the "Data Collected" ||| link at BDM Historical Records ||| (http://bdmhistoricalrecords.identityservices.govt.nz/home/) to see ||| what the law said should be recorded at the time. ||| ||| When you do place an order with BDM remember to ask for the ||| printout, not the legal certificate, for family history purposes. ||| ||| Hope this helps. :-) ||| ||| Kind Regards, ||| Wendy Howard ||| || Thank you Wendy || || Unfortunately I forgot to mention that the marriage was registered || in 1840. The Data collected site starts with marriages from 1854. || || Regards || Karen Do you know where they married? you could try Paperspast http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast