> On GENUKI I found a marriage of Benjamin MENNELL to Mary BEETHON on 30 > September 1831 at Whorlton. It seems to be a perfect fit. But I > would like to know if there are any further details in the parish > register, and hope that this information will help to confirm that > they are 'mine' :-) Hi Geoff and List, Thank you for your advice about the information contained in parish registers between 1754 and 1837. However, if anyone can look at Whorlton PRs for me to see if there are any further details I would be most grateful. I have done quite a lot of research in Oxfordshire and I have found that sometimes there are significant other details entered in the registers of this period, and I am hoping, being an optimist, that this might be the case here, for me! Best wishes, Rosemary, Northumberland UK http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rprobert/index.htm ==== Family History - mostly from England and Scotland ==== ========== Photographs from the North of England ========== > Very little extra detail is given in the period 1754 to 1837. In particular > there is nothing at all about the parents of either party. If you are > lucky it might say whether they are bachelor and spinster or widower/widow and it > may confirm that they were "of this parish" or possibly "of" some other > parish, but that would only refer to their address at the time of being married, > which might not have applied for very long. Even if they were married by > Licence, rather than by the more usual method of "after Banns", 1831 is too late > for the various projects there have been to abstract and index Durham > Marriage Bonds