"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