Thank you so much, Mike, for your suggestions.  I will look into all of them.  I was able to come close for a Thomas BROOKS/Elizabeth marriage.  Extracted records on the IGI show one Elizabeth DAVIES who married a Thomas BROOKS in 1806 in Owestry and another Elizabeth PEELE who married a Thomas BROOKS in Shrewsbury in 1811.  That's as close to home as I could find on the IGI site.   Now...to get busy with your other ideas....thank you again, Barbara