Kaye, Sorry I can't help you with your actual query, but I'm interested to pursue the first marriage you mention. Alice MORGAN was my great- great aunt, her sister Anney married my great-grandfather William Francis GOODHEW. I have a small amount of info about Peter RIGBY, but have not followed his line. I have that Peter and Alice were married in the Christchurch Cathedral at Newcastle on 5 Sept 1859. They were married by Edward K. Yeatman and the witnesses were Betsy Morgan and Daniel McAlpin, but I suppose you already know that. I would be interested in contacting anybody with connections to this MORGAN family, Alice and Anne had five other surviving sisters [Elizabeth (Betsy), Margaret, Mary, Sarah and Ellen] and one brother, James, who died as an infant. Their parents were James MORGAN (1814-1867), a carder from Lancashire, who may have been an engine driver when the family came to Newcastle (Bolton Street) in the early 1840s; and Sarah BROUGHTON (1813-1881) also born in Lancashire. Ron On 19/10/2006, at 5:01 PM, Kaye Vernon wrote: > From: "kaye vernon" <kjvernon@bigpond.net.au> > Subject: [HV] Rigby / Morgan and Wade / Rigby > To: <AUS-NSW-Hunter-Valley-L@rootsweb.com> > > I received two marriage certs yesterday with lots of blanks. > Nothing unusual I know. They are both from Newcastle, and both C of E. > Peter Rigby married to Alice Morgan 1859 and John Thomas Wade > married to Esther Rigby. > Are the C of E Newcastle on microfilm or would I have to contact > the Church on this one. > Kaye