FreeBMD mystery - please help!

Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 29 Jun 2010 09:25

Problem: deceased female relative ,thought to be a widow in 1930's,found in one volume/page of FreeBMD marrying a second time but with four entries shown. I would expect two but here the 'widow'is shown marrying the same person but giving two different names. One is her original marriage name ,the second is completely unknown.
Problem isn't helped,or is it (?), by finding original husband dying 30 years later than believed.Could it be 'widow' lived under mystery name and at second marriage had to give both? Any suggestions most welcome
Dagwood[confused]

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Post by **nsw** » 29 Jun 2010 10:44

Sorry I'm not totally clear on what you're asking - are the 4 entries you refer to the names of 2 men and 2 women? Apologies if you know all this but... the pages you refer to will have 2 different marriages recorded on them. The indexes give the name of a person and the page they appear on. So all that FreeBMD can tell you is the 4 people on that page. It doesn't tell you which of the 2 men each woman married.

Post by **nsw** » 29 Jun 2010 11:03

I notice you mention Warrington ancestors in your signature so if the marriage is in Cheshire or Lancashire then do look at the cheshirebmd.org.uk or lancashirebmd.org.uk sites (google for them) - some other counties have similar sites - see the ukbmd.org.uk site for links.

Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 29 Jun 2010 21:49

Nick, thanks for taking the trouble to reply. I could not have made it very clear first time so here goes again:
As you say a page normally has 4 entries,it just happens this has 6 of which 2 are irrelevant. Four entries have one male name, two of these have one female name, the other two another unknown female. The male is as expected and is an uncommon name (Edward Edmeades) the spouse in each case has the correct forename(s) Maud C but in two entries is Chapman and another two Guilfoy ,the unknown name.
Warrington is not involved as these are London(Surrey) marriages. I have no objection sending a copy in an e-mail or PM if possible?
Dagwood

Post by **nsw** » 29 Jun 2010 23:11

The page that is indexed for Edward says the spouse name is 'Guilfoy or Chapman'.

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/informati ... ybA&scan=1

You'll see on the original image there are a few entries where the spouse name has alternatives so its not particularly unusual. I'd guess this means that one of these names is her previous married name and the other her maiden name. Is that possible?

Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 30 Jun 2010 12:49

Nick, thanks for pointing us at that page, we had not seen it as we approached from the Maud C Chapman direction. As you say it does not appear uncommon for two names to show on spouse , however in this case the Guilfoy name is not known and is definitely not a maiden name. The mystery remains but thanks again for your reply.
Dagwood

Dagwood · Post by **Dagwood** » 30 Jun 2010 13:17

Nick, we cracked it! Following your alternative approach we searched Guilfoy and found an unknown second marriage. Maud had a second husband before marrying Edward Edmeads.We don't know as yet what happened to the second hubby but it's possible we may find a WW2 fatality. Of more general interest is that now we have a good idea of why FreeBMD shows two names for the spouse with an OR between them.
Thanks again
Dagwood[smile]

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