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   J. P. Gilliver (John) to All   
   couple sign copies?   
   10 Feb 21 20:54:37   
   
   From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   Just looking at my maternal grandparents' wedding certificate (William   
   Weightman to Mary Haley, 1927-10-1, Bedlington, Northumberland [St.   
   Cuthberts]).   
      
   It's the usual "I, ... do hereby certify that this is a true copy of the   
   Entry No ... in the Register Book of Marriages of the said Church.",   
   although it _is_ dated the same day, i. e. it isn't a copy made later.   
      
   I notice the signatures are different writing to both that elsewhere on   
   the copy and to each other, so it looks likely Grandma and Granddad (and   
   the Witnesses - they're different too) signed it.   
      
   I just wondered if it was common for the couple to sign both the   
   register and at least one of the copies. (I'm guessing it was the copy   
   for their own use, as I have it - the actual piece of paper I mean -   
   from among Grandma's papers.)   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   the plural of 'anecdote' is not 'evidence'. Professor Edzart Ernst, prudential   
   magazine, AUTUMN 2006, p. 13.   
      
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