Hi list James queried why freebmd did not include the spouse's surname. Simple! The indices did not include the name of the spouse until 1912! The indices on fiche at Bromley Lib don't of course have them so I can't see how scans of the indices can help. Are these scans of the original manuscript books, or later printed replacements for some of them, (neither of which have the spouse's name until 1912!)? What happened about pages torn from these original books to satisfy the vanity of some vandals? Was there a back-up copy? Some of the fiches are virtually illegible, so for dates <1902 freebmd is a much better option. Of course they had difficulty reading some of the names and got some wrong! To get the surname (choice of 1 to 4) of a spouse freebmd is going to be the only way! John Dixon