Genealogy Chat

Is the only way to look at marriage and birth details by buying copies of the actual certificates. Is there a website that allows you to look at all the details such as Bride and Groom's parents names and other information such as ages of Bride, Groom Father, Mother etc. If I have to pay for a certificate for every member of my extended family it will cost me a fotune!

If you know the date, and the church in which people married, then it is possible to look the record up in the parish register. Other than that, buying the certificate is the only way to have ALL of the information available on the certificate. As for births - I guess you could look for baptisms, but this won't tell you the woman's maiden name etc. PS. Marriages in England and Wales DO NOT give mother's name. Just the fathers' names and occupations.

Chloe When you send for a marriage certicate in Yorkshire Englandl will it tell you fathers address etc. i Have info on the mother but trying to find out Fathers details of where he lived to enable me to go further back in the Family. I live in Scotland and therefore don'h have any info of my Husbands Grandfather.

You are very lucky being in Scotland, as you get much more information from certificates and much more cheaply. Welcome to the VERY expensive hobby of English family history, lol What has already been suggested is really the only way, but you are unlikely to get father's address on marriage certificates. Kath. x

Not always, but check address for newly married couples, quite a few of mine were living at their parents at time of marriage. It is worth checking in a directory for that. Steve

KATH Thanks for you message, how do you go about finding a person's address and what family lived in the home etc. if you can't find them in a Census because you don't know the area they live in. Betty

I am very jealous of your having a lot of Scottish ancestry, I have a bit, BUT it only starts in 1800 so before civil registration, but still a lot easier to track ancestors down there than it is here! As for fathers' address at the time his son/daughter married - marriage certs can be very different from each other. Some give the exact address for the groom and bride at the time of marriage, some just the street name, and others just the parish. As for the father's address - only if they are living in the same house as their son/daughter at the time of marriage. Sadly it will just give name and occupation, and whether or not they are deceased (will usually not say anything if father is still alkve, 'deceased' if they are said to be). Does this make sense? Perhaps Kathleen was far better at explaining it than myself! Best of luck Chloe

STEVE Thanks for your reply. What do you do if they are not staying at home, how do you find them in a Census, I don't even know his age or anything. Betty

Hi Betty, With great difficulty I'm afraid. I use Ancestry but you do have to have a bit of an idea of when and where the person was born. It also helps if they have an unusual name. Do you want to give us a name and idea of birth year to see if we can track him down? Kath. x

Your going to have to purchase certificate I am afraid. After a while you will purchase so many things will work out eventually on their own. Birth, marriage, birth, marriage, birth, marriage etc etc. Perhaps if you give us a name and a lot of the details you have we can indevor to fill in the pieces. Take the details you have and work backwards. Of course if it is present day, go back as far as you can and make details of everything however minor, things can snowball real quite I have found out. Hopefully we can help Steve