Hello Everyone Following the recent messages about Marriage Indexes which are available in Shropshire I thought it might be helpful to provide a list of all such indexes rather than answer individual messages. Boyd's Marriage Index This covers the period 1538 to 1812, or in a few cases about 1840, but only for those parishes and those periods which are included in the printed registers of Shropshire published by the Shropshire Parish Register Society in the early 1900's. The index is available at the Shropshire Archives, Shrewsbury or the Society of Genealogists, (SoG) London. A fee is payable at the latter if you are not a member. Since August 2002 it is also available through the British Origins web site on a pay per view basis, see www.britishorigins.com Pallot Index Commenced in 1819, the index covers all but two of the 103 ancient London parishes but in addition includes about half of the Shropshire parishes for the period 1790-1812 (and just a few to 1837 or even later) but most of these are covered to a greater extent by Boyd's Index above although there is some additional coverage. It is owned by Achievements Ltd., 79-82 Northgate, Canterbury, Kent CT1 1BA. Tel: 01227 462618 (24 hour answering) Fax: 01227 765617 They consult the index for you and a fee of about £15 is payable for each separate and individual search. For extractions, the rate is £25 for up to 20 entries reported. Estimates will be given for more than 20 entries. Send an S.A.E. for further details. In 2002 the whole of this index became available for anyone to purchase on one CD-ROM at a cost of £59.95 inc. postage worldwide. It is available from TWR Computing, Clapstile Farm, Alpheton, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 9BN www.twrcomputing.co.uk The information is also available on the Ancestry.co.uk web site, but you must be a subscriber to use it. Lewis Index This index was compiled by the late Maurice G. Lewis and covers the period 1750 to 1812 for all those parishes which are not covered by Boyd's Index above and includes full details of the marriage as outlined in the Parish Registers. In addition the index incorporates over 5,000 'strays' i.e. Salopian’s who married outside Shropshire - these are for any date up to 1837. Widows, where identified as such in the P.Rs., and girls who married away from their own parish are also indexed, but girls who married in their own parish are not indexed separately. See note below. Gwynne Index This covers the period 1813 to 1837 for all parishes in existence at that time. It is compiled from Original Registers, or Bishops Transcripts where the original is no longer available. The index was commenced in March 1978 by Mr Richard Gwynne and following his death soon afterwards was continued by his brother, Mr Robert Gwynne who has since died. The index records approximately 36,500 marriages solemnised in some 222 parishes. In addition it includes marriages from five border parishes, but does not include other strays. Where identified, widows and widowers are shown and the Index includes females, as well as males, in alphabetical order. See note below. North Wales Marriage Index This is mainly for North Wales counties but also includes the following Shropshire Parishes in the north west of the county:- Chirbury, Clive, Cockshutt, Criftins, Dudleston, Ellesmere, Halston, Hordley, Kinnerley, Knockin, Llanyblodwel, Llanymynech, Melverley, Oswestry, St. Martin's, Selattyn, Welshampton, Wem, Weston, Whittington and no others. The Index can be accessed on Genfair at www.genfair.com Details of all parishes covered from: Mr Dafydd Hayes, Pen Y Cae, Ffordd Hendy, Gwernymynydd, Sir y Fflint, CH7 5JP e-mail: dafydd@wyddgrug.freeserve.co.uk Strays Index If a marriage cannot be located in any of the above it might be worth consulting the Strays Index which is run by the Shropshire Family History Society. This information is freely available on the Society web site at www.sfhs.org.uk select ‘Resources’ from the front page. NOTE During the later part of 2006 the Lewis and Gwynne indexes were both donated to the Shropshire FHS but as they are both in paper format it has been decided to computerise them so that they can be made available on CD-ROM as a single index. Obviously this work is going to take several months to complete and during this time it will not be possible to look up entries for researchers. The short term wait will provide a long term gain for everyone. Mike

Dear listers, In the search for my Sarah Turnoff/Tournoff and the Keay family, I have today received a burial record for Sarah. On the page with Sarah are the following names - Joseph Woodvine Thomas Woodvine Eliza Hall Sarah Higgins Edward Brookes Hannah Williams Eliza Williams Should anyone want further details on these, the record lists the burial date and age but unfortunately no grave numbers to show where they are buried. Lee in Australia mlhaley@nor.com.au