Genealogy Chat

I don't think so - there is a site which shows which pit they died in if there was an accident.
http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/disasters/

Here's a gg uncle of my wife:

Mining Accidents - McCANN Thomas
Name: McCANN Thomas
Age: 13
Date: 10/05/1873
Year: 1873
Occupation: Rolleyhooker
Colliery: Douglas Bank
Owner: JG Morris
Town: Wigan
County: Lancashire
Notes: Set of tubs running over him on incline.

On the marriage records front, if you know where a couple were married & it was a CofE church, the county records office may have the marriage register. You should then be able to view either a microfilm copy, a scan, or the actual register. If the detail has been microfilmed, many county records offices have the facility to print from the film or scan. Whilst there is usually a charge, it is far less than buying a copy of the cert typically less than £1. If the marriage register is still held at the church concerned try contacting the church who may give you the detail. Before doing any of these its worth checking whether there is a full transcript of the marriage available on line. Whilst some records offices have gone down the route of scanning parish registers & making them available on line. I haven't found post 1837 marriages scans on line - could be some copyright issues connected to the GRO.
Julie

So you have not seen any parish registers online then Julie.....I have many of my ancestors marriages

Both Grandparents taken from Seax (Essex records) All four sets of gt grandparents taken from Ancestry London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921 Plus others from Hertfordshire Marriages on FMP all after 1837

Following on from jax's post, Ancestry has scans of parish registers for London, Surrey, Lancashire and Dorset - wish they had been on earlier in my searches, I would have saved a lot of money not having to have bought marriage certs!

Familysearch has images of Durham Bishops Transcripts, some of which go up to 1919 but you do have to browse through the images for each parish but if it is a post 1837 marriage, the place of the marriage should help to identify which parishes need to be searched.

Thanks everyone.

Very helpful.

:-)

To those who have commented about on line scans of parish records, I did say in my earlier post that it was scan/images of marriage registers from 1837 onwards that I hadn't see on line, rather than not seeing any parish registers on line at all. Lincolnshire have scanned all burial & baptism registers they have, except the ones that have entries less than 100 years old. They have also scanned the marriages records up to & including 1836. These are all free to view on the lincstothepast.com site. (I am aware that some other counties have scans on line, but charge to view them, the lincs site only charges for copies of the scans)

There are many Cornish parish register images (post 1837) on line at Family Search, which are free to look at.

Essex used to have pre 1800 images available for free, but once tha later ones were scanned, they started charging.

Last time I used Seax I spent £5 for 24 hours...I managed to get 4 marriages
, both sets of grandparents plus a great aunt from the 1920s also an aunt in 1948.

Had I known of any more recent marriages in churches I could of found them on there

In a post near the beginning of this thread, you mentioned your gr-grandfather born c1920, Elaine.

If you care to give us the details you have, we could have a look for you, though it's harder to trace people later than the available censuses.

( But don't post if he or your gr-grandmother are alive - it's not a secure site, so not advisable to give specific details of living people.)

Hi,

My gr-grandfather passed a few years ago, but gr-grandmother still alive so can't really post further info and like yourself waiting for next census. Thanks for the advice.

I am looking at a census. At the part giving details of parents it confirms Mr as the head, his wife married for 3 years and details of children. It is same info on both lines but beside Mr name there is a line through this part. What does that mean?

It was the wife who was supposed to answer the question about how long the marriage had been for and how many children born to that marriage etc. Many people completed it wrongly against the husband's name, so it was crossed out and put in the right place by the enumerator or the husband realised it was in the wrong place. If you look at the top of the column where the numbers are entered on an original census return it says
"State for each Married Woman entered on this schedule, the number of :- " and goes on to split into columns regarding the marriage and then the children of that marriage.

Widows are also not married women, but some mistakenly gave marr & births details - these are also crossed out, but thankfully, just with a single line, and so are still quite readable.

Thank you for that. :-)