Hi Carole The fact you have not found them does not mean they do not exist ;-) Births may not have been registered but the marriage if it took place is almost certainly somewhere, perhaps not where you are expecting or under names you may not know (i.e. was the bride a widow married previously) People for reasons known only to them sometimes change name at times Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) >I read this with some interest, having spent months researching a family of > Grahams, I cannot find their marriage nor registration of any of their five > children, have concluded at last they were not registered. > > Carole Brett