Hi Darryl and Elizabeth Have you tried this site http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~onvsr/ There are some early marriages 1900-1927 arranged by county. Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: "elizabeth mcdonald" <[email protected]> To: "isle of mull roots" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2011 12:48 PM Subject: [SCT-ISLEOFMULL] John McDonald - finding his wife's family > > Dear Darryl, > I guess I am not able to help you further. > > I understood that births, marriages and deaths registration > began in Ontario in 1869, not the 1880's. > > In the first few years, the indexes on microfilm lump circa > 1869 to 1874 all together as not all citizens complied initially. > > One other thought of what I have found occasionally. > Sometimes a child in the family (eg perhaps Christina McDonald aged 6 in > the 1841 census) has a different surname than the family. And sometimes > this is because a teenage daughter of the family had a child out of > wedlock, the child bears the father's surname, but the mother's family is > raising it. I have found this two or three times. > > Happy New Year. > > All the best. > > Elizabeth. > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 6753 (20111229) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com