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Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29 112 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	17 Oct 2008 15:13
	Have you found the groom using 1851 and 1861 (married) information to find his age ? Gwyn
Member Since: December 2002 Posts: 447 Send Message	Jubal	Report	17 Oct 2008 15:07
	Hello everyone, I do hope someone can advise me. I received today a copy of a marriage certificate from the GRO in Southport, my problem is that I can't make out the groom's age. It's not a 'bad copy', merely me being unable to make out whether the registrar has written the groom's age as 40 or 48 (he does his 8's weird). The marriage took place at the Registry Office in Derby in 1856. I've phoned the Records Office in Derby and they said they didn't have the records of registry office marriages there and to phone Derby Registry Office, fair enough...the lady there said she couldn't help me and I should phone the GRO and they would send me another copy, BUT, I said, the copy is fine, I just can't make out the groom's age! So here I am going round in circles. I have tried phoning the GRO but it is like getting through to speak to the Queen! OK, I exaggerated a bit. Does anyone out there have any advice, I feel like tearing my hair out! Sorry for the rant, Jubal. PS I have been chasing this family down for about a year, which is probably why I am a bit tetchy...grrr..