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Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 14 Send Message	Christine	Report	4 Aug 2010 13:25
Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 14 Send Message	Does anyone know if the officiating officer or person who completed a Wedding Certificate always had to add the word deceased after the father's name if the man was dead. In other words if 'deceased' was not writen are we to assume that the father was still living? Thanks Christine
Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 14 Send Message	Christine	Report	5 Aug 2010 10:55
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Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 29,112 Send Message	Gwyn in Kent	Report	5 Aug 2010 11:21
	My grandparents married in 1900. The certificate shows their fathers' full names and occupations, but nothing indicates that the bride's father had in fact died in 1876, when she was just 3 years old. It has been suggested on these boards that people in those days didn't generally volunteer information, they just answered a question, so.... "Name and occupation of your father?" was answered truthfully on my certificate, ....but no extra details added. Gwyn