From: stevenng5@sgibbs1.freeserve.co.uk   
      
   On 28/08/2018 13:40, Richard Smith wrote:   
   > It's quite common for a birth or death to be registered several days or   
   > even weeks after the event, especially in the early days of civil   
   > registration.  Is the same possible for a marriage?  I've always assumed   
   > that the registration happened on the day of the marriage, at the   
   > signing of the registers.  Is that necessarily the case?  Specifically,   
   > if I find a marriage listed in the GRO index for Q2 of a given year, can   
   > I safely assume the marriage happened in April, May or June, and it's   
   > not a late registration of a marriage that occurred in March?   
      
   I've got over 15,500 transcribed Bedford marriages in my database, all   
   cross-checked against the GRO index. I don't now remember whether any   
   were registered in a later quarter, but if there were some, the numbers   
   would have been trivially small. But, with GRO indexes, there is always   
   a tiny chance of a clerical error somewhere down the line.   
      
   Steven   
      
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