<Tue, 7 Apr 2009 00:13:18 Jeff Wilson wrote I need help looking up the marriage of a William Higgs to Elizabeth in about 1797-99 (in Oakley??). > Just a comment, something you may already know. The FHL Catalog shows a gap between 1754 and 1813 in Oakley parish registers for marriages plus even larger gaps in the Bishop's Transcripts. Looks like they have been missing for a long time as in 1938 an book of extracts of Oakley marriages ended with 1754. So the marriage could very well have been there. Have you looked at the National Archives Access to Archives? Seems to me that I saw marriage licenses on there, but may have been Bedfordshire. Since Oakley borders on Oxfordshire good likelihood William was from there. Unfortunately the IGI doesn't have a lot of marriages extracted from that county. Good luck, Charlotte