On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 12:59:08 EDT FrostSES@aol.com posted the following message : >Hello Bryn > >I have just cross referenced checked on the full Marriage Index and they are >both there i.e. David Lloyd and Elizabeth Evans Apr 1838 Llanfyllin 27 119. >So it must be a transcription error. <snipped> Hello Shirley, Not necessarily :-) The GRO reference does not point to one single marriage - in fact, at that time, there were usually eight names (four marriages) with the same reference. The system was changed in 1852, and from then onwards there were four names (two marriages) with the same reference. If you find two names in the GRO marriage index with the same reference, it should not be assumed that they married one another! -- Regards, Vic Roberts vroberts@nildram.co.uk