Hello, Many thanks to Maureen, Joy and Alan for their replies. As you will know, I am trying to find a marriage that took place in or around Plymouth in about 1747. As well as one at Brixton (3 miles east of Plymouth) there were two at Holy Trinity, Exeter, but these seemed to have happened too far away to be relevant. Someone then suggested that the marraige may have been by licence, particularly since my Thomas Mitchell was a sailor/marine. Hence I wondered whether, since the whole of Cornwall and Devon came under one Diocese centred on Exeter, licenced marriages were "collected together" in Exeter, in the "mother church" and not recorded in the local register. I have since found that there is/was a Holy Trinity Church in South Street, Exeter, a mere stone's throw from the Cathedral, so maybe that acted as a "sub-office" at the time? In the absence of anything better I think the marriage in Brixton is the most likely. However, although Thomas, his wife and child returned to his home village of St Agnes, I haven't found a burial record for the wife in the St Agnes registers, and I don't know the child's name either. If anyone has any other ideas, I'd be grateful to hear of them. Tom Thompson, St Agnes.