Chris's note: This is the same marriage record which John Brooks Threlfall believes is that of Thomas & Grace of Concord, MA. ----- Original Message ----- From: 'Debbye Lansing' <Debbyel@comcast.net> Sent: Wed, 10 May 2006 07:16 Subject: Fwd: Thomas Brooks & Grace Hi Chris, Here is the response I received from the Cathedral Archivist of the Manchester Cathedral. It looks promising! ========================== Dear Mrs Lansing, Thank you for your email enquiry, which was passed on to me, the Cathedral Archivist, by the Dean. I have looked in the original registers of baptisms, marriages and burials, which are housed in the Cathedral's own Archives, and I can confirm that the marriage entry for the 2nd February 1618 (in modern dating) is as follows: Thomas Bruckes and Grace Cundelyve huius [Latin for 'of this parish']. I have also undertaken a search for the couple's children: Mary, Joshua, Caleb and Gershom. I used the index in the published version of the registers (done by the Lancashire Parish Register Society between 1908 and 1949 - in three volumes they have covered the period from 1573 upto 1666). The only possible baptism mentioned is: 15 January 1626 - Mary, daughter of Thomas Brucke of Moston. The other three names do not appear in the index. The other way of searching, and the only index available for the registers after 1666, is to use the Mormon website search facility: www.familysearch.org If you would like an official certificate of the entry in the registers, please contact the Parish Clerk and Head Verger, Mr Geoffrey Robinson, who can write an authorised certificate for a small fee. He can be contacted on: geoffrey.robinson@manchestercathedral.com Yours sincerely, Christopher Hunwick ____________________________________________ Christopher Hunwick, Cathedral Archivist, Manchester Cathedral, Manchester. M3 1SX Tel: ? (0)161 833 2220 Fax: ? (0)161 839 6218