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My query regarding the name George DUNN on a marriage certificate and not Joseph DUNN has certainly generated a lot of stuff! I await a response from GRO but am pretty sure that this is some kind of recording error on the part of the registrar. Thank you all for your interest.

Was this a church wedding.? If so, have you seen the actual church register?

I have a registry office cert. which gives the 1sr name of the grooms father correctly but gives the surname of the stepmothers later husband. Someone seems not to have got their head round all the options.

It was a church wedding.
Transcription posted by safc on 9th Aug at 16:23

Thanks AG but I meant the actual page in the church register not the transcription.

Just in case there was any comments or changes made.

That's a good point, names.

I was helping a friend with her tree and she was puzzled by the marriage of a Thomas. When she eventually got a photocopy of the actual register, he was in fact James.

The more times a record is copied, the more chance there is for human error.