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will do! thanks for the little push,it helped,maxine

Youre welcome, now go to freebmd and have a try at finding the marriage yourself, just for a practice.

thanks for the help heather!

thankyou sam! x

Buy her marriage cert and get her fathers name and occupation, her age, her occupation (ditto the grooms details) plus the residence at the time and the helpful witness signatures.

You go freebmd to find the marriage reference and then you buy the certificate for £7 from here: Tick the box when they ask if you have the GRO reference - thats it above.

http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/

Sam has kindly looked it up for you, they seemed to have not been able to transcribe her surname, but you know that anyway. You only need to put in her details - you dont need the Martin bit on there. (nor the 99% - which just indicates how much of that year has been transcribed by the wonderful volunteers on freebmd)

You need to get a copy of Matilda's marriage certificate:

Surname First name(s) Spouse District Vol Page
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Marriages Mar 1916 (>99%)
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Martin Matilda _ertnett St. Olave 1d 330

The you will know how old Matilda and Richard were when they married and also the names and occupations of both their fathers. This should make it easier to find them on the 1901 census.

Sam x

hi,im trying to find out about a matilda martin who married richard hartnett in 1916 in london,they would be my greatgrandparents,my grandmothers maiden name was ethel f hartnett,her mum was matilda martin,any info would be great! thanks again,maxine