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From: "Elizabeth Angela Guyver" <>
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Marriage Locations, where to find same
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2005 19:00:17 +0100
References: <20050616163857.7026.qmail@web25303.mail.ukl.yahoo.com>


It doesn't cost anything to look on the index
----- Original Message -----
From: "steve s" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [WarBrides] Marriage Locations, where to find same


>
> Dear Adam,
> The best place to find the marriage location is
> from the marriage certificate. All those who get
> married in the UK, including military service
> personnel which includes Canadians here during the war
> years were registered hence available in the Family
> Records Centre, in London. The last time I requested a
> certificate the cost was £7. If you do not know the
> date of the marriage one has to look up four quarter
> indexes per year; it would be logically to start in
> 1946 and work backwards to 1940 when there were only
> hundreds of service personnel marriages, where as,
> thousands as the war progressed.
>
> --- Adam Watkinson <> wrote:
>
>> My war bride grandmother, Dorothy May McKenzie (nee:
>> Knapp)originally from
>> Northhampton, married my grandfather in 1942, (who
>> was stationed at
>> Aldershot and later CMHQ), and came to Toronto in
>> spring 1946 on the
>> Aquitania.
>>
>> She sadly passed away in 2004 after being a widow
>> here in Canada since my
>> grandfather's untimely death in 1960.
>>
>> By the time I became interested in her story as a
>> warbride, she was too ill
>> to discuss details.
>>
>> In addition to my grandfathers full Canadian
>> Military file, I have a wedding
>> photograph (with the happy couple and another RCA
>> chap leaning in-would love
>> to know who he might be!) which appears to have been
>> taken at a registry
>> office rather than a church (my grandfather was not
>> the religous type!). I
>> would love to find out where they married.
>>
>> Does anyone know where I might find this
>> information?
>>
>> >
>>
>>
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