Hi Earl, If you're buying records from the PRO - and especially if you're doing it online - you have enough information without knowing the wife's name. If you tell them the index reference ( year, quarter, volume, page) and one of the party's name they will send you the record for that person. Of course the risk is that if it's not the one you want they can't check against spouse's name. cheers Graham Dixon (Auckland, New Zealand) =============================== X-Message: #3 Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 10:31:56 -0400 From: "Earl Chapman" <earl.chapman@sympatico.ca> To: ENG-WORCESTER-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <004e01c5766d$fb478b90$0a02a8c0@Earl> Subject: GIBBONS Family Lookup Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Greetings, I'm looking for the marriage of John and Ann GIBBONS in Dudley. I located the marriage using FreeBMD but unfortunately, the marriage page for John (3Q 1838, 18, 291) shows two Ann's: Ann Pagett, and Ann Sutton. So I need to find out which Ann is 'my' Ann before I can order the marriage certificate. If anyone has access to Dudley marriages in 1838, I would very much appreciate a lookup. I'd also like to find them on the 1851 WOR census. The Ann I am looking for was born about 1818/19 in Water Orton (parents unknown). Ann and John show up in the 1861 Census living on Montrose Street in Wolverhampton. At the time of the 1871 Census, Ann and John were staying at the Traveller's Rest Inn in Aston. Presumably they were on their way to Aston, perhaps from visiting relatives in Worcestershire. Ann shows up as a widow in both the 1881 and 1891 Census. John and Ann's daughter, Eliza, married Thomas Bennett Stevenson (my great grandfather) in Birmingham in 1877. At this time, John and Ann were living on Bread Street, a prosperous part of old Birmingham (it no longer exists). John was alive at the time of Eliza's wedding but was dead by the time of the 1881 Census. Any help greatly appreciated. Regards, Earl Chapman Montreal, Canada