Thank you, so far, to Graham, Carol and Maureen. The accuracy and completeness of such weekly newspaper lists of BDMs from the early 1800s of course has to be questioned. I wonder if it was the parties concerned who saw that notices were received by newspapers sometimes good distances away. Or perhaps church wardens were given some enticement to send such reports in. In any event, in this case at least, the place or estate would almost certainly have been "..thorpe", as there are not a few of them around so spelt. Could it have been Castle Thorpe, two words? If so called, presumably there was history of a castle having once been there, or near there. Medieval castles were usually sited next to a navigable river. In this case I had assumed the wedding had been at Thornton, just east of Selby. In fact, LDS records (Batch M108592) now confirm it had taken place at Thornton (le) Dale, near Pickering, the groom, now known to be JOHN CLARKE, having travelled a much further distance from near Selby. Bill. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Graham Metcalf" <grahmetc@hotmail.com> To: <eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:57 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] Castlethorp near Selby and Thornton - CLARK | | Bill | | Checking on GENUKI, there is a Thorpe Hall near Selby, and there is the village of Thorpe Willoughby, not far away. No Castlethorp though. | | Graham | | > From: wbwebster@optusnet.com.au> To: eng-east-yorks@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 20:51:31 +1100> Subject: [ENG-EAST-YORKS] Castlethorp near Selby and Thornton - CLARK> > I wonder if someone may be able to assist locating Castlethorp or any of the > people named? This is a query more properly for the North Yorks list but I > am not a subsciber there, so here's hoping.> > The following I obtained from a brief window of opportunity to search the > British Library's 19th Century newspaper archive:> > MARRIAGES> On Tuesday last, at Thornton, by the Reverend Mr MACKERITH, Mr. CLARK, of > Castlethorp, near Selby, to Miss WEBSTER, daughter of the late Reverend > Robert Webster, Rector of Thorpebasset, and Curate of the Holy Trinity > Church at this place (Hull). (My capitals and brackets.)> > [Source: The Hull Packet and Original Weekly Commercial, Literary and > General Advertiser, 13 December 1808.]> > I also wonder if a York newspaper may have given more details.> > Bes! | t wishes> > Bill Webster> > > > > -------------------------------> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message | | ------------------------------- | To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-EAST-YORKS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message |