Hello Chris, Many thanks for this. It has also been pointed out that the YAS West Riding material is on Ancestry, now I remember why I pay them subs! Best Rod At 08:01 22/01/2012, west-riding-request@rootsweb.com wrote: >Here is a partial answer. I didn't find the actual marriage register >entry, only the banns. > >Ancestry.co.uk has a WRY marriage collection. I found marriage banns for >John BAILEY and Mary Elizabeth KENYON, 1st-8th-15th April 1900 at >Holmbridge, St David. Both parties were "of this parish". Banns for the >Ben KAYE/Agnes WAKEFIELD couple appear on the same page. > >Looking at the FreeBMD index, there are entries for > >Mary Elizabeth KENYON m. Huddersfield (Q2 1900) vol. 9a pg. 573 >John BAILEY m. Huddersfield (Q4 1900) vol. 9a pg. 575. > >So possibly John BAILEY's record was mis-indexed by the GRO. > >Sometimes the volume/page references in the GRO index are okay but are >mis-transcribed in one of the online indices. The workaround is to look at >another agency's transcription, i.e. try findmypast.co.uk if you already >tried FreeBMD. > >Chris Morley RSVP. Please support the St.George Foundation: www.adecentlife.org

I did a quick check of the image for the index in Q2 1900 and found Mary Elizabeth Kenyon, as expected. There is no John Bailey in Huddersfield - in fact no male marrying in Huddersfield in that quarter who could be the groom. So the fault seems not to be that of FreeBMD, but of the compilers of the index. I can see no alternative but to order her marriage certificate! (which I'm sure you were hoping to avoid). cheers Maggie -----Original Message----- From: Rod Clayburn <rod.clayburn@one-name.org> To: west-riding <west-riding@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 10:20 Subject: Re: [WRY] WEST-RIDING Digest, Vol 7, Issue 4 Hello Chris, Many thanks for this. It has also been pointed out that the YAS West Riding material is on Ancestry, now I remember why I pay them subs! Best Rod At 08:01 22/01/2012, west-riding-request@rootsweb.com wrote: >Here is a partial answer. I didn't find the actual marriage register >entry, only the banns. > >Ancestry.co.uk has a WRY marriage collection. I found marriage banns for >John BAILEY and Mary Elizabeth KENYON, 1st-8th-15th April 1900 at >Holmbridge, St David. Both parties were "of this parish". Banns for the >Ben KAYE/Agnes WAKEFIELD couple appear on the same page. > >Looking at the FreeBMD index, there are entries for > >Mary Elizabeth KENYON m. Huddersfield (Q2 1900) vol. 9a pg. 573 >John BAILEY m. Huddersfield (Q4 1900) vol. 9a pg. 575. > >So possibly John BAILEY's record was mis-indexed by the GRO. > >Sometimes the volume/page references in the GRO index are okay but are >mis-transcribed in one of the online indices. The workaround is to look at >another agency's transcription, i.e. try findmypast.co.uk if you already >tried FreeBMD. > >Chris Morley RSVP. Please support the St.George Foundation: www.adecentlife.org Some useful websites - FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ FREEREG - http://www.freereg.org.uk/ Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message