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Hi,
Can anyone tell me if I can view original certs on this site, or any other sites. I'm looking for a marriage certificate and have names of the people involved so it would be easy to find but just don't know how to do it. Thanks

Depending on date and location some can be viewed on Ancestry

No, you can't, unless they are among the records transcribed on Ancestry, which are limited

You can find the record of a marriage on freebmd..........up to abt 1955..................and order a copy of the cert from the GRO

Ancestry also has images of Manchester and Liverpool marriages and some ones for Dorset up until 1921; also has West Yorkshire.

These are images of original church registers so will have the couple's signatures which certs may not as they are copies of the church registers.

Family search have images of a lot of Cornish and some Devon parishes:
https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1769414

Thanks everyone. I have the names of my gggranparents and wanted to get their marriage certificate so I could check out their parents.

Hi Patricia, why not tell us who they were and when/where married and we'll see if we can find anything for you or give you pointers on where to go next.

If they married in England/Wales after July 1837, the record of the marriage will be on freebmd. from where you can link to the GRO to order the cert

BUT........only the fathers will be named on the marriage cert...............and only if they were known

When and where were these people born?

When do you think they married?

Hi, thank you for your kind offers so here goes.
The names are:
John Dawson and Elizabeth Bell.
John was born in Shoreditch, London, in 1857.
Elizabeth was born in Middlesex in 1856.
I don't know the year they were married but their first child was born in 1882 so I assume it would be before that. I'm also assuming they would have married in London, Shoreditch or Bethnal Green may be, as it seems all their family come from that area. However I'm beginning to find out that "assuming" is not a good thing to do!
Thanks for your help

London, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1921
about John Dawson
Name:
John Dawson
Age:
Full Age
Spouse Name:
Elizabeth Bell
Record Type:
Marriage
Event Date:
16 May 1880
Parish:
Hoxton St John
Borough:
Hackney
Father Name:
Robert Dawson
Spouse Father Name:
Robert Bell
Register Type:
Parish Register


I will pm the image


Had you put those names into freebmd theirs is the only marriage that comes up

Marriages Jun 1880 (>99%)
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BELL Elizabeth Shoreditch 1c 226
Dawson John Shoreditch 1c 226

As I have sent the image you do not need to purchase it

Thank you Jax. Really appreciate it.
Can you tell me how and where you got the certificate?
Thanks
:-)

Can you make out what John's profession is?

As mentioned above it came from Ancestry under the London marriages

No I cannot work out what his occupation was something Maker

Was he a salesman in 1891?

Mat(t)ress Maker

Put freebmd in your favourites...............and use it for BMD lookups between 1837 and c1955.

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/

There is a John Dawson, b1857, on the 1871 census with father Robert (Cabinet Maker - the same occupation as the marriage) with mother Bridget.

Robert's POB given as Norwich, Bridget's Limerick, Ireland. Living next door is a James N Dawson, Cabinet maker, b 1842 Shoreditch

There is a marriage in 1864 for Robert Dawson, Cabinet maker, widower to Bridget Bowton Nee Collins, widower but the couple are on the 1861 as married (living in the same road as on the marriage).

There is a marriage for a John Henry Dawson (Cabinet Maker) in 1867; father Robert Dawson, Cabinet Maker and freebmd has this birth:


Births Mar 1846 (>99%)
DAWSON James Henry Shoreditch 2 492

Thanks so much everyone for looking up all that information for me. I've put freebmd in my favourites now Reggie, and will work on all the information you found for me Potty. Thanks Pam for pointing out his occupation was probably Mattress Maker. This is getting addictive! :-)