My 5x gt-grandmother, Mary MORLEY is a complete mystery! She married Joseph NORTON in Stapenhill, 6 Apr 1730 and was buried in the same place on 14 Nov 1764. Although her parish at marriage was given as Stapenhill, there were no MORLEYs christened in Stapenhill prior to 1730, so I have no idea of her place of origin. In his 1789 "View of the Present State of Derbyshire", James Pilkington wrote that "The village of Stapenhill contains 68 houses, but of this number 47 stand within the parish of Burton". So perhaps she lived in Stapenhill but belonged to the parish of St Modwen, Burton on Trent. In spite of there being no MORLEY baptisms in Stapenhill, there were, however, these other C18 MORLEY marriages in the parish: 1715: John MORLEY, of Repton m Mary PEACE 1762: Hannah MORLEY, of Burton on Trent m Joseph HARDIMAN 1790: Robert MORLEY, of Willesley m Elisabeth GILLIVER Does anybody have in their tree a Mary MORLEY who may have married in Stapenhill in 1730? Regards Blanche Charles (nee Norton) Wellington-Kapiti Coast New Zealand NORTON Family History Unlimited http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~blanchec/indexdby.htm