If Linda Wolfe Kelley's reply on 14 Oct didn't solve your query, then the info on YorksBMD includes a link to enable you to order a copy of the secular marriage certificate. That will give you more information at the secular level. A British marriage certificate includes: 1: *Given and Family Names of the bride and groom. 2: **ages of bride & groom (or possibly just whether "of full age" (21 +) or minors (under 21) 3: occupations of bride & groom 4: current residence(s) of bride and groom 5: *names of bride's and groom's father's 6: the fathers' occupations (and, possibly, whether or not already deceased at the time of the ceremony) * It has become clear that some immigrant families, less accustomed to the use of surnames rather than patronyms, and accustomed to the use of more than one version of given name, were not always consistent in their choice of names in these sections of secular registration documents. It may also have been that they did not regard the secular registration documents as having any great importance, as compared with religious documentation. **"full age" remained at 21 in the UK until ca 1970 when it was lowered to 18. Purchasing a BMD certificate direct from the GRO or from the Local District Registry Office is almost always *significantly* less expensive than going through an intermediary site. The fee should be the standard amount of ca £9, even from abroad. The information should be the same, whichever source you use: central or local. However, the central record was derived from the local one by transcription, quarterly, which has allowed some errors to creep in: both as to omission of whole records, or errors in transcription of content. Once you know more about the families' residences and occupations, it may be possible to find traces of them in the Historical Directories site (a .org site set up by Leicester University some years ago). It has images of trade, and similar, directories going back into the early C19th, and they are searchable with OCR. As you work backwards, there is also an 1894 Commercial Directory of Jews in the UK amongst the books in archive.org, also searchable. Mary SW Herts ________________________________ Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2010 19:28:28 -0400 From: Jonny <[email protected]> Subject: [BRITISH-JEWRY] Saperia in Leeds To: [email protected] <snip> The Yorkshire BMD site lists the following marriage: Year: 1908 Groom: Alexander Joseph Bride: Ada L. Saperia Church/Register Office: Louis Street Synagogue If anyone has any knowledge of the above marriage and/or the couple's families or can obtain more information from one of the publications of that time, please contact me off-list. <snip> Jonny Joseph Los Angeles, CA, USA