Hi Brenda, I have several marriage certs with a father listed as deceased, but the occupation is always listed. And they are from different areas of Ireland. So I would think this is common procedure. I'm no expert, just going by what I've seen in my research. Mary in CT, USA ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brenda & Gord Anderson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, July 07, 2005 10:05 PM Subject: Marriage Certificates >I have been trying to find the deaths of certain of my family members - and >wonder of any knows if they would put > Deceased on the Marriage Certificates if the father was dead at the time > of marriage. I have yet to be able to prove this one way or another. I > wonder if anyone can tell me if they have a death before the marriage of > one of the children and what the certificates says. I may be off on my > thinking - but I can't seem to find them after the marriage date so wonder > if it could be before and they are just not saying so. I know the English > ones do? Any help would be appreciated. > Brenda Anderson > Brampton, Ontario > > ______________________________ >