eve@varneys.org.uk > > You may also find a marriage of an Emily Georgina BROWN to Carl H. J. > Lange. I'd appreciate knowing if the birth date of EGB in this > marriage matches the birth date of Emily in the CWM-EGB marriage in > 1899, There is no information about dates of birth in the indexes of marriages on line (or elsewhere). \normally, you have to buy the certificate, which will state her age (and even that may be what she said, rather than what is accurate, if she was covering up anything. Only if you are lucky and tap into one of the few on line listings from actual registers will you get the age included. As she was widowed from Chas. MALLETT in 1905, she would > probably have still been in her 20's. In the case of a second marriage of a widow, she would remarry as Mallet, not Borwn. However, some later indexes (not all) do duplicate an entry with the actual maiden name, if this was a period when the official indexers studied 'ma,e of father' and used both surnames if they were different. EVE Author of The McLaughlin Guides for Family Historians Secretary, Bucks Genealogical Society