From: richard@ex-parrot.com   
      
   On 28/08/18 14:03, Steven Gibbs wrote:   
   > 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.   
      
   Thanks.  That's exactly the sort of reply I hoped someone would be able   
   to give.   
      
   Richard   
      
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