Wedding announcements are also often listed in the papers and include the name of both the bride and groom to be. Check for the approximate date of the marriage and a few weeks following. If you only know the groom's name, search for him. Your female ancestor and her maiden name will be inevitably be listed alongside. Even if your ancestor didn't serve herself, if her husband or son died in the war, often there are records of their pension files with her maiden name listed.
Sometimes marriage certificates or affidavits included are also found in military records. Remember, your most likely searching for your female ancestor's male relatives in these records, in the hope to find her mentioned in the detail.
If land deeds were transferred to a widowed wife when her husband died, sometimes her maiden name will be listed in the records. Keep an eye out for for the Latin et ux , in the records. It means 'and wife'. Look through the names of your ancestors and if any seemingly unusual names appear, it's worth looking into. It is not uncommon that your ancestor's middle name is that of their mother's maiden name. This applies to both men and women, so if you spot an unusual middle name, follow it up.
Check the back of old photographs for clues to who was in the picture. The insides of old books, family bibles and any old documents you may have could also reveal a lot. If the records you need aren't available online, reach out to churches and archives for access to them. Join online community boards like the Findmypast Forum , where like-minded researchers are ready and willing to provide assistance.
If you're still having trouble finding those pesky maiden names after trying all of these tips and resources, take some time out with our video masterclass on tracing female ancestors. Skip to content. Log In Sign Up Start your family tree. Search our articles. Blog Home Help Hub. With the anticipation of locating a maiden name, check all associated birth, death and divorce records for the woman, as well as for her siblings and children.
The good news-many types of records or other sources of genealogical evidence are either now available online, indexed online with digital images pending, or easily ordered online from archives and libraries. These records include licenses, banns, bonds and consent affidavits.
A Bann is an announcement of an intended marriage usually made in church on three successive Sundays. Prior to the 20th century, grooms were required to sign a bond—a document to ensure that there was no reason, moral or legal, for the couple not to marry.
Typically, the father or brother of the bride signed as surety on the bond. A consent affidavit was usually signed by a parent or guardian usually the father in cases where the bride or groom was under the minimum legal age for marriage. Finally, do not assume that a person had only one marriage, especially when the vital records are sparse or missing. In the U. Consult VitalRec. If your ancestor was religious, there may a record of her marriage may be found in the local church.
You will need to know the religious faith or denomination. Always look for the proof! Marriage records in Canada have been recorded for the most part since the early s and primarily kept by the individual provinces. This surname was normally her maiden name. She had children with Samuel, with the birth certificate of her daughter Harriet implying that Barker was her maiden name when this was not the case, so watch out for circumstances like this.
A marriage certificate mentions the names of both the bride and groom. If you have found a family in a census return , it is important to also check their neighbours because sometimes you find that the daughter, when she married, did not move far from the family home.
If you have a clue as to the date of birth or place of birth of your ancestor from a census return, it is possible to search on a site such as FreeBMD, Ancestry or Findmypast using only a first name.
For example, I knew from the Census that my ancestor Isaac Dunkley had married a lady called Jane, and had had children between and and that they were living in Roade, Northamptonshire. Using this information I could ascertain that they had probably married between and , so knew to concentrate my search for their marriage between these two dates.
I then inputted this search into FreeBMD. This research showed that there was only one record during this time period, which was Isaac Dunkley marrying Jane Jannett in the Apr-Jun quarter of It is incredibly important to ensure that you have found the right person before adding them to your tree. For example, my family has a family bible that was given to Mary Florence Adams on her 21st birthday.
Further research determined that Mary Florence Adams had married Henry Thomas Richardson on 16 December Mary had altered the marriage date by a year because she was pregnant when she married. Some military records sometimes mention the maiden name of the woman if her husband had died in the war.
If he was entitled to a pension, this record usually mentions the maiden name of the wife and their marriage date.
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