In a message dated 03/04/2004 17:48:29 GMT Daylight Time, rosemary@prob.freeserve.co.uk writes: 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' :-) 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, so finding the small amount of extra information available from that source would mean a trip to Durham University Library, where you would need to sort through boxes containing hundreds of such Bonds to find the right one. You therefore probably have all the evidence you are likely to get from that entry. However there may be a clue in the names of the Wittnesses (if not just th parish clerk and his assistant) and whether they and the parties were literate. Nevertheless, do remember that any information from a secondary source such as a transcript or index - ANY transcript or index - MUST be checked against the original before it can be regarded as correct. Geoff Nicholson 57 Manor Park, Concord, WASHINGTON, Tyne & Wear NE37 2BU Ask for details of NBL/DUR family history research in depth by THE local expert, working for YOU.