I think it can't be working properly. It is supposed to stay in the same registration district (RD)! The Guild of One-name studies is working on the cardinal points. Cardinal points are the first and last marriage in each parish in a registration district for each quarter and show where each parish begins and ends within the page numbering system in a RD. This only works perfectly when all parishes can be looked at. Spalding RD would be a good one to do as only the non-conformist and Register Office marriages are not available. These are always at the end of the numbering system by the way, so if the page numbers for a marriage in a particular quarter go beyond the numbers for the last C of E parish you know that you have a non-con or RO marriage. I know that someone is working on the marriages in the Lincs index, but it is a slow job. The non-con marriages are the ones that the banns are read for in the Workhouse Minute books. For example, the first Horncastle minute book has the banns between John Buffham of Tattershall widower and Elizabeth Cooling of Coningsby widow to be solemnized in the General Baptists Chapel in Coningsby in August 1837. If you look at the marriages for the Horncastle RD for the September quarter 1837, the page number is 517. That is the highest page number for that quarter, except for two that simply have to be incorrect as they are way above this number. Unfortunately not all the workhouse minute books give the place where the couple were to be married, sometimes just a list of names is given. Even so, it is a good indication that the marriage took place (if it did take place) in a non-conformist church or chapel. Stamford of course has a book kept by the clerk where he lists all the marriages that took place in the Stamford RD up to 1863 under the name of the church/chapel/Register Office, but he doesn't give fathers' names. The marriages for these books are included in the post 1837 MI, even the ones for the Rutland & Northamptonshire parishes and the one Huntingdonshire parish that form part of the Stamford Union. Anne Anne Cole, President, Lincolnshire Family History Society Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One-name Study GOONS member 513 http://www.one-name.org/profiles/duncalf.html http://duncalfonenamestudy.tribalpages.com/ Lincolnshire Post 1837 Marriage Index http://mi.lincolnshiremarriages.org.uk/ Lincolnshire Family History Society http://www.lincolnshirefhs.org.uk -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Victor Markham Sent: 11 March 2014 08:35 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LIN] Spilsby RD Hi Nivard Thanks for the link. I have been away hence the late response. It just said .... the entry is located between entries for Wellingore (RD: Sleaford) and Orby (RD: Spilsby). Regards Victor On 09/03/2014 11:02 AM, Nivard Ovington wrote: > Hi Victor > > This may be of interest > > Its not complete as it says but can be a help with some > > <http://www.marriage-locator.co.uk/> > > Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) > > On 08/03/2014 23:59, Victor Markham wrote: >> Thanks Ann >> >> Little did I know that these volume number help to locate where the >> marriage took place. After all these years I had no idea. It did >> explain why I was puzzled in seeing some page numbers lower in one >> year compared to an earlier year. Time I made a study of this. >> >> Thanks for your help in this. Hope it also helps others to understand >> it too. >> >> Victor > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] 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 [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message