hi i am looking for a last name for this person Margaret A. b: abt 1846 old weston , huntingdoneshire thats all, she married a thomas whoston birth abt: 1843 radnorshire wales married unknown date had john thomas whoston 1878

If you purchase the birth certificate of John Thomas you'll get her maiden name, then hopefully find her marriage

David

would they have it that far back and if so i live in the usa how much would it be and to where thanks

Civil registration of births marriages and deaths started in 1837. The indexes are available on www.freebmd.org.uk. Once you've found the event that you're looking for make a note of the quarter, the registration district and the volume and page numbers. Then go to http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/certificates/ where you can order the certificate online, cost £7 posted anywhere in the world, and you can pay by credit card

But there might be a quicker and cheaper way. Presumably you've got the information from the 1881 census. It was obviously a second marriage for Mary, as there were a number of children named Laxton in the household (it's been transcribed as Lencton, but that's wrong).

Using freebmd look for a marriage of Thomas Whoston and Mary Laxton - there's one in June 1877 at Barrow in Furness vol 8e page 1069

If you order this certicate you'll get Mary's maiden name - it will show Mary Laxton formerly...

But in earlier censuses Mary's husband is shown as Thomas Laxton, born 1831 Old Weston, with the eldest child being born in Old Weston in 1854/5. Freebmd has a marriage in the March quarter 1851 in Huntingdon registration district district where two of the parties on the page are Thomas Laxton and Mary Ann Deighton. I suspect this could be the marriage but as Old Weston parish register hasn't been extracted onto the IGI I can't see if there's a Mary Ann Deighton baptism.

I would get the 1877 certificate

David

thank you so very much and i just need someone who knows what they are talking about to tell me what i should be looking for as their is a very large sum of info to unravale as i have exhausted every free link that was available. now i will go to the pay sites and go into a further depth of info and try to unravale the name that was given to me . now the whoston name is in 4 contenants and we are growing and all i want to do is get it all together and forward it on to my grand son and son who are named after me as they will know where they are from thanks david for the info , hope that wasnt to much of a thank you but when i get a response from a million people out their and only one writes back thats a lets say high five haha thanks joe