Hi Jan The two reasons I have come across for copies are firstly when there is a smaller chapel or church satellite to a mother church and one has their own register which is then copied into the mother churches registers And second where both the original and the bishops transcripts exist and are both scanned Neither seems to be the case here as they are in the same register two pages apart Perhaps the Vicar or Clerk thought one or other had missed some entries out and duplicated them , its odd the pages 4, 5 & 6 are in reverse, did they fill them out for the BTs with the intention of removing those pages and not complete the task? Also strange is that they do not have the same entries on them I will be interested in others thoughts on it Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Hi, > > In Ancestry "London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921", > I have found the following record: Mary WASPER married John THOROUGHWOOD > on > 21 July 1822 at St Mary, Staines. She was noted as being from Longford, > Middlesex, and John THOROUGHWOOD was noted as being from Saffron Walden in > Essex. They were both sojourners in this parish, ie St Mary, Staines.

Nivard, are they the same register ? In one, the page numbers are printed and in the other they are handwritten and seem to be condensed and there is a page of baptisms in between. It makes me wonder if they are not two different volumes or just loose leaves. Anne South Australia Nivard Ovington wrote: > Hi Jan > > The two reasons I have come across for copies are firstly when there is a > smaller chapel or church satellite to a mother church and one has their own > register which is then copied into the mother churches registers > > And second where both the original and the bishops transcripts exist and are > both scanned > > Neither seems to be the case here as they are in the same register two pages > apart > > Perhaps the Vicar or Clerk thought one or other had missed some entries out > and duplicated them , its odd the pages 4, 5& 6 are in reverse, did they > fill them out for the BTs with the intention of removing those pages and not > complete the task? > > Also strange is that they do not have the same entries on them > > I will be interested in others thoughts on it > > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK)

Hi Anne Hard to say without the actual pages in hand They are a batch of 6 pages 2 marriages then a page of baptisms then three pages of marriages in reverse Its quite possible they are loose pages scanned out of order Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > Nivard, are they the same register ? In one, the page numbers are printed > and in the other they are > handwritten and seem to be condensed and there is a page of baptisms in > between. It makes me wonder if they > are not two different volumes or just loose leaves. > > Anne > South Australia