I am hoping someone can help me. I have just returned to this list after an absence of a few years. I am researching SCHLOSSER, Maria Magdalene born 1753, from Bottingen, Gundelsheim, and Mathias HIRSCHMUELLER , born March 1733, from Hessigheim. These two were married abt 1770, but I can not find a marriage for them. She was Catholic and he was Lutheran. They show up in Obergailbach, Alsace and the birth of their children are recorded there beginning in 1773, but no marriage. Would appreciate anyone's insight into this brick wall. He was a carpenter. Would they have been able to leave their home towns legally or ?? It makes an interesting story, I think. Thanks so much for the opportunity to ask on this list. Celine