How to Search for Partnerships

• Male: Enter one or more terms to match the first, last or "known as" names of the male partner. Terms are case insensitive, don't have to be full names and order is not important. For example, a fairly specific search might be: "john smith" which would only find males that had names matching both those terms. In contrast, a less specific search example is: "jo sm" which would match John Smith but also Joe Smyth, Jon Dinsmore, and so on.
• Female: Similar to Male above but will constrain the female half of the partnership and also search the pre-marriage surname. For example, "coyle orr" will match women who were originally called "Coyle" then later called "Orr" (or the other way around).
• Start: Enter a year (e.g. "1927"), a range (e.g. "1925-1935") or a limit (e.g. ">1900" or "<=1960") to constrain the start year of the partnership. For marriarges (the majority of the partnerships in this database) this is the wedding year.