Genealogy Chat

The parties are Evelyn May GOADBY and John Jabez Thomas PICKERING. They were married in Leicester (my guess would be St Peters). Her father WILLIAM GOADBY is on the photographs. He died in the September quarter of 1945. The story goes that he allowed Evelyn a special dispensation to stay out until 10.30 on VE night, so presumably she was still unmarried and living at home then. I've been all through 1944 - 45 but can't find them in the register. Anybody got better eyes than mine this morning? Cheers Sheila

I would just widen my search? when it comes to dates people are often out by 1 or 2 years and can be as far out as 3 and 5 years if you cannot find them after expanding your search then i would question the original info that i was given

I would do normally, but I went to their silver wedding party in 1970! Sheila

If you have the dad's death cert and you are sure you are looking at the right wedding photos and he is definitely on them (and I'm sure you are right!), then at least you have a certain cut off point for the marriage. Some entries do not appear in the GRO indexes, mistakes do happen!! Three ideas: 1) contact Leicester Reg Office and see if they will do a search of their registers for the period in question. They MAY do as you are fairly certain of the venue. 2) If they won't look over a wide time frame then the other option would be to see if the original marriage register has been deposited at the County Record Office. If it has, then maybe a lookup could be done there. 3) if they haven't got the register, it might still be at the church, so you would need to contact the church warden. Is there anything in the photos to help you with the venue? (to be certain of the church, I mean??) Merry

Apr qtr 1945 7a679 Leicester district Pickering John J T to Goadsby Ancestry has missing pages on the Goadsby side but not for the Pickering Glen

Glen I have the Goadby page in front of me for that Q???? page 27. Why can't I see her?? Merry

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmyou are right (LOL wasn't suggesting you weren't!) So, Goadby recorded as her name on the Pickering entry, but nothing on the Goadby side......... Shows mistakes do happen! Merry

I can't see her that way either but did see the marriage via Pickering. I think it could be a missing entry or similiar, Try under Pickering and tell me if my eyes are working!! Y ou never can tell with mine lately Glen

LOL - Next time could you get your look up and post in a bit quicker, coz it took me ages to type that rambling reply earlier, that's now a load of %£'&*£&$** LOL!! Merry

Yeah and we both addad the letter 'S' to Goadby. Actually several pages for Goadby seem to be read as Goody/Goodby,maybe the image reader is struggling just as much as we are LOL Glen (4th bash at my name damn fingers!!!!!)

Thanks chaps - now I understand why I couldn't see it. My Auntie Ev was born in May 1901 (just missed the census) so when she had her special dispensation to stay out until 10.30 pm on VE Night - she was 44 years old. How times have changed! Thanks again Sheila

It's possible that the special dispensation was in fact for the end of the First World War?!