Here at home - Canada. I have done many searches re marriages etc The Marriage index - will show - the marriage registration listed twice - same registration number . with the each showing one of the surnames. When we marry [at least years ago] we took our husbands surname as ours - thus after being widowed or divorced - that was our legal surname . The one under which we would be married. Thankfully - having the name listed twice - helps give us something to follow - Cheers, Stella At 12:58 PM 06/12/2007, andrea_fh@talktalk.net wrote: >On Fri, 7 Dec 2007, Jennie in Tokoroa, NZ wrote: > > > I have a marriage entry in the 1948 GRO index in which two surnames >are shown for the wife. I assumes this > > means she has been married before..... > >I too have an entry like this, in 1940, where BOTH surnames (maiden and >first marriage) were shown against the entry for the man, and the woman >was listed twice, once under each surname. In this case I was able to >find the first marriage - but I think the sequence of the 2 surnames >was purely alphabetical, as the first name listed was her 1st married >name. > >I found this very useful but have not managed to find any information >about >1) whether this was a standard practice or just occasional >2) if it WAS standard, when did it start? > >Does anyone else have any more information about this? > >Regards, >Andrea > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message