While extracting marriage records from the Parish of Whitchurch in Shropshire, England, film I02498-3 page 192 in the record book John Bate, a bricklayer, the son of William Bate, a bricklayer, married Eleanor Grafton, dau. of Thomas Grafton, a shoe maker, on 30 Apr 1848 in the presence of Joseph Bate and Mary Bate. Dave Leavenworth Lineage 179