Hi Geoff First, Durham Records Office have an online search at http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com >From there, if you wish you can purchase a transcription of the record you have found for £3. However, the record of this marriage is listed as a Marriage Bond. These, together with Bishop's Transcripts, are held by Durham University (they have a lot of the old cathedral records, it appears). And all the images have been scanned and uploaded to the Family Search website. However, they are not indexed by person, but can be browsed. The marriage Bonds are held in date order - you can select the year and then browse for the date. There are 964 for 1765! But you can skip to say page 600 and then search etc You WILL find the one you are looking for - there are two consecutive images, one of the marriage licence and one the bond. Don't forget to look a few days before the marriage took place as the date is when the licence was issued. I shan't spoil your fun by telling you what it says....but do get in touch if you can't find it. The link is here: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675690 click Browse through images, then select year, then click on reference number and you are away. Enjoy! Barbara

Hi Barbara & Geoff Just a small addition/alteration To the best of my knowledge Durhamrecordsonline is a separate commercial website and not affiliated to Durham Records Office Its a very useful site albeit not the cheapest, but relatively easy to use Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 03/02/2016 11:52, Barbara Roberts via wrote: > Hi Geoff > > First, Durham Records Office have an online search at > > http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com > > From there, if you wish you can purchase a transcription of the record you > have found for £3. However, the record of this marriage is listed as a > Marriage Bond. > These, together with Bishop's Transcripts, are held by Durham University > (they have a lot of the old cathedral records, it appears). > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Hi Barbara Many thanks for that! The Family Search catalogue is something I must look into in more detail if it contains records of this quality. So he was a 'mariner' and he had been living in the parish for more than 4 weeks. His age ties in very well. His bondsman was a boat builder - perhaps he was doing some repairs? John Dandison's signature is fairly distinctive for the time (unusual capital D and comparatively small, neat lower case letters) and I will be able to compare it with his 'Humble Petition' to Trinity House of 1799, when I next visit the Society of Genealogists. Wish I'd made a copy when I was last there! The year before, in 1789, it was probably his ship that had been lost on the Goodwin Sands whilst returning from Tortola (crew saved 'by the Deal boats') and it may well have caused financial problems for him ('...but by Misfortunes is quite reduced'). Regards Geoff -----Original Message----- From: eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-lincsgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Barbara Roberts via Sent: 03 February 2016 11:52 To: eng-lincsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LIN] ENG-LINCSGEN Digest, Vol 11, Issue 44 DANDISON marriage Hi Geoff First, Durham Records Office have an online search at http://www.durhamrecordsonline.com >From there, if you wish you can purchase a transcription of the record you have found for £3. However, the record of this marriage is listed as a Marriage Bond. These, together with Bishop's Transcripts, are held by Durham University (they have a lot of the old cathedral records, it appears). And all the images have been scanned and uploaded to the Family Search website. However, they are not indexed by person, but can be browsed. The marriage Bonds are held in date order - you can select the year and then browse for the date. There are 964 for 1765! But you can skip to say page 600 and then search etc You WILL find the one you are looking for - there are two consecutive images, one of the marriage licence and one the bond. Don't forget to look a few days before the marriage took place as the date is when the licence was issued. I shan't spoil your fun by telling you what it says....but do get in touch if you can't find it. The link is here: https://familysearch.org/search/collection/1675690 click Browse through images, then select year, then click on reference number and you are away. Enjoy! Barbara ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message