From: john1@s145802280.onlinehome.fr   
      
   On 28/08/2018 15:03, 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.   
   >    
   > Steven   
   >    
   >    
      
   If you think there is a good chance it is an error you would need to    
   check the original certificate rather than the indexes. The indexes were   
   created quarterly when the local registration returns were sent in.   
      
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