Hello Robert no marriage would give the nationality. The marriage might say of this parish but that just means that they live in the parish for a minimum of 3 weeks. The reference you supply is for a 1/4 in that year and the DISTRICT of Portsea Island which unfortunately doen't help with a particular church, whether non conformist or not or registry office. The only way would be to order the certificate as there were many many churches at the time of the marriage concerned. Hope this helps a little,Linda and Tony Have struggled for along time to trace a marriage of a tree member JOHN WILLIAM BARNES (His Son WILLIAM JAMES BARNES married LEAH ELLEN CHICK my line.) Today I found the following on Ancestry.com MARRIAGE: BARNES JOHN W KAHLAHAR MARY E JUNE 1866 PORTSEA ISLAND HAMPSHIRE 2b 774 It was always assumed that KAHLAHAR was KEILER born abt 1846 QUEENSTOWN IRELAND so we have never found a marriage. I think this may be a break through. ANYWAY QUESTION apart from ordering Cert, what church, Reg office, parish reg are available to confirm MARY ELLEN'S Nationality Irish, THAT WOULD BE ANOTHER + Can not find MARY or JOHN on 1861-1871 census returns either as KAHLAHAR or BARNES