Hi Rosemary Why not email Southampton Archives? archives@southampton.gov.uk Let me know if they can't help, but as they have all the original parish registers they should be able to! Cheers, Dave Jacobs =============== At 17:14 29/09/2004, rosemary.jackson1@tesco.net wrote: >Dave, >Is there anywhere I can obtain information from Parish Records for the >Southampton area? I am searching for the marriage and birth of James >Hancock Darley, b. c.1800 and married to Frances ? c.1820. He was a >painter (decorator) as were the sons of the next two generations. I >believe them to have lived in the St. Mary's District. >Rosemary >Essex > > > >============================== >Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237