Hi Bill It seems clear to me that it states Mitcham in the County of Surrey Why the clerk entered it that way and not Of this Parish is odd but perhaps he had entered "the" instead of "this" and carried on And yes I would say Tho's (Thomas) GILES Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >I am trying to read where a William Dalton was residing (in which > parish) according to the marriage record. He apparently was not > residing in the parish where the marriage took place. He married an > Elizabeth Redman, Jan. 16, 1803, at St. Peter and St. Paul in Mitcham. > > I found the document on Ancestry and the URL is > http://search.ancestry.com/iexec?htx=View&r=an&dbid=1623&iid=31419_A104023-00000&fn=William&ln=Dalton&st=r&ssrc=&pid=10042814 > > The reason that I send the URL is that it is a single page that was > copied from somewhere. > > My question is, what parish was he a member of? I read Lohan or Loham. > Where would that be located? Also, what was the surname of the second > witness? Thos Giles? > > Bill