Can anyone help me with identifying who the Mr and Mrs HULIN mentioned in this article in the Times were? I am intrigued by the story. And if they were dissenters what records can I look at to see if there were other HULINs who were also married/christened/buried in a dissenting church. Many thanks Helen in Wellington NZ From "The Times", Tuesday 28 July 1863, p.7. "House of Commons, Monday July 27. "MARRIAGES OF DISSENTERS. "Sir M. PETO asked Her Majesty's Government whether they had heard of the remarriage of a Mr. and Mrs. Hulin by the Rev. Horatio Walmesley, vicar of St. Briavels, Gloucestershire, after they had been previously married in a Dissenting chapel, and on which remarriage the vicar entered the parties in his register-book as bachelor and spinster, knowing of the previous marriage; and whether Her Majesty's Government would prosecute the vicar for making such entries under the statute 76th George IV., sec. 29. "Mr BRUCE did not think that the conduct of the vicar in question could properly be made the subject of a prosecution for penalties under the statute. The first marriage was either a valid one or it was not. If it was a valid marriage all that was done afterwards was simply superfluous and null, and could not be made the subject of a prosecution. If the marriage was invalid then everything which subsequently happened was regularly done. No offence had been committed against the law, though there might have been an offence against good taste and good feeling, besides an exhibition of contemptuous indifference to the law of the land. (Hear, hear.) " --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.490 / Virus Database: 289 - Release Date: 16/06/2003