Judy Berntsen wrote: > Can anyone please tell me whether the Marriage Certificate of a Widower who > is getting married for a 2nd time gives the name of his deceased wife. I > am trying to find out who the mother of a child is. All I know is that John > Fuller married a Jane Wickham in 1850 and he was a widower at the time. His > daughter Ann was supposedly born in 1842 in Brightling but I cannot find a > birth registration for her, which makes me wonder if her birth was not > registered, as a lot of them went unregistered. The first wife's name would not be given. I was given this site which is very helpful for saying what is on certificates. It seems it changes from time to time. http://home.clara.net/dixons/Certificates/indexbd.htm Have you tried the local register office? Sometimes they are there but not in the GRO index. Connie in London