Okay, so now I'm going to look for a marriage. In this section, I'm just going to look for a post 1912 marriage and then later on in the following lecture, I'll look at marriages before 1912. This one should be fairly straightforward. I'm going to look for the marriage of my mother's parents. I'm going to start from this page rather than going to specifically the civil registrations because as I said before, if you can find the parish register entry for a marriage, then you don't from 1837 You don't need a certificate. However 20th century parish registers are not that well covered.
So I'm not really expecting to see the parish register entry, but it's always worth starting from this page for a marriage. Anyway. So let's do this quite quickly. My grandfather's name was Francis manly. Now my mother was the eldest of two. And she was born in 1924.
It's very important that you get an idea of the data, the eldest child before looking for a marriage, so that you can narrow it down. Up until fairly recently, people were not able to plan when they had children. So children usually came along within a year or two of the marriage, and sometimes before so do bear that in mind. more children you might think were born before the parents were married. So it's always worth searching, you know, a year or two after the birth of the first child to so in this case, my mother was born in 1924. So I didn't know when they will I might sort of do 1923 and two years either way, as my mother was born in Manchester, I would like to start with my slightly.
Parents often married in same place that first job child or children were born, but not always necessarily the case. So we won't put except there just in case. Now, because this is after 1912, and the spouses name will come up in the indexes, we're going to put in my grandmother's name, read, and of course, because we know that that name can have various spellings, we won't click on exact. I should mention, check what you've got here for which collections you're looking at. Sometimes, if you go down here, you'll find it's got all collections, and then you'll have Probably American entries, which can confuse the issue. So as long as you know, you're looking within the UK then I would make sure that is clicked on there.
Okay, so let's do the search. Right. And as you can see, this is pretty straightforward. None of the other entries here, look at all right. So we would go over here. And if I just hover over there, you can actually see that the spouse name is definitely Elizabeth read.
They were married and Prestwich in Lancashire and you need to take these details down before heading over to the general register office and ordering that certificate. So that's fairly straightforward for post 1912 search.