Hello Dennis and Peter, I also used the IGI search for church records in Shropshire for a Hannah Edge born about 1760 near Market Drayton. I have ancestors from that area so have looked at lots of maps to find the small villages around there. Imagining that Hannah Edge married between ages 15 and 25, I set the search parameters to the year 1759 plus or minus 5 years. The results I got for all of Shropshire were these: > Ann Edge, Gender: Female Christening: 20 JAN 1761 Whitchurch, Shropshire, >England > > Ann or Anne Edge, Gender: Female Birth: About 1763 Waters Upton, Shropshire, >England / she married Luke Morris > No christenings for that 10 years for a Hannah Edge [Peter, can you share the results you got? I'm not getting the output you did. Thanks]. I would have thought Ann Edge of Whitchurch would be a good option for you, as Whitchurch is in northern Shropshire about 10 miles from Market Drayton, as you likely know. Here is a helpful map: http://www.northshropshire.co.uk/north-shropshire-map/ However, the IGI for this Ann Edge shows she died in 1763: http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/igi/family_group_record.asp?familyid=66295779&indi_id=500031625824&lds=1®ion=2&frompage=1 Searching the IGI records for Hannah Edge, Birth/Christening, 1730 - 1770, Shropshire (Salop), England, British Isles, Exact Spelling: Off, I get 16 results [Ann or Hannah] but none that are in the right time period or location. I wonder if your Hannah Edge is simply not in the IGIs? Or, is there a chance that she was consideerably older than the typical marriage age of 18-22? John Shropshire and Hannah Edge are on this geneaology site, but no birthdate for Hannah: http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/b/a/k/Dennis-Baker-North-Yorkshire/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-0162.html Hannah Edge is in 3 family trees on Ancestry.com, with her birth date either about 1760 or just 1760. No one has a birth location for her either, using just Shropshire or Shropshire area. Searching just for EDGE surname in Shropshire, I see a good number of results for towns such as Hodnet, Prees, Wem, Whitchurch - all in the greater Market Drayton area. Wish I could have helped, Dennis. Barbara NOTE 1: Hannah was a frequent "familiar name" for women christened Ann. NOTE 2: The marriage of Hannah Edge and John Shropshire was on 7 Feb 1779 according to the IGI record for Market Drayton, Shropshire, England. --------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 09:43:15 +1000 From: "Peter Booth" <pbo08596@bigpond.net.au> Subject: Re: [ENG-SHROP] look up please-HANNAH EDGE m1790 Market Drayton To: <eng-shropshire-plus@rootsweb.com> Dennis wrote:- I would be most grateful if anyone could locate the birthdate/baptism of a Hannah EDGE who married John Shropshire at Mkt Drayton in Feb.1779.She was probably born in that area around 1760. I believe she may have died in Mkt.D.in 1820. Dennis, IGI has 10 possible birth / christenings 1755-1775, so you probably need to look at the closest parish to Market Drayton or get somebody to lookup her 1779 marriage and see if she is "of the parish". You could also narrow down the possibilities by working through the 10 entries one by one and trying to match them with know marriages of the time. Peter in Sydney