Hello Roy Just wonderful..... Thank you. Best regards Heather Carbis Online Parish Clerk for Morvah Cornwall http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~morvah Visit my Family Tree at GOODWIN and GORDON http://heatherac.tribalpages.com --- On Fri, 29/5/09, Roy Stockdill <[email protected]> wrote: > Subject: [DUR-NBL] What the IGI doesn't tell you - a wonderful marriage entry! > To: [email protected] > Being a keen aficianado of those > weird and wonderful entries from parish > registers, censuses, wills, MIs and other sources, etc, > that we all so love, > I possess a super little book compiled and published in > 1996 by one > Michael Southwick, of Winlaton, Tyne and Wear. This is a > compendium > of such tales called "Ancestral Anomalies" and in it the > author includes > what must surely be the longest and most wonderful marriage > entry in a > parish register even seen! > > Firstly, let's look at the usual bald entry in the IGI, > totally lacking in any > detail..... > > JOHN WATSON, spouse JAN HUNTER > Marriage: 31st Jan 1672, Bedlington, Northumberland, > England > Batch no. M000111, source the Bedlington parish registers > > Now here is the full transcription from the registers for > Jan 31 1672 (with > little punctuation, so read carefully)..... >