>From FreeBMD, 1853-1880..... Marriages Dec 1853 Drury Joseph Aylsham 4b 235 Marriages Dec 1854 Drury Joseph Sheffield 9c 379 Drury Joseph Lincoln 7a 982 Marriages Mar 1858 DRURY Joseph John Bermondsey 1d 61 Marriages Dec 1858 DRURY Joseph Manchester 8d 501 Marriages Jun 1861 Drury Joseph Lincoln 7a 833 Marriages Dec 1862 Drury Joseph Sheffield 9c 317 Marriages Mar 1863 DRURY Joseph Halifax 9a 474 Marriages Sep 1863 Drury Joseph Lockyer Stepney 1c 1000 Marriages Mar 1866 DRURY Joseph Louth 7a 743 Marriages Dec 1866 DRURY Joseph Glanford B. 7a 1411 Marriages Sep 1867 DRURY Joseph Henry Poplar 1c 1130 Marriages Sep 1868 Drury Joseph Stoke T. 6b 292 Marriages Dec 1868 Drury Joseph Chesterfield 7b 992 Marriages Jun 1869 Drury Joseph Radford 7b 263 Marriages Jun 1870 DRURY Joseph Spilsby 7a 1119 DRURY Joseph William Eastbourne 2b 82 Marriages Dec 1870 DRURY Joseph Dartford 2a 551 Marriages Jun 1871 Drury Joseph Pancras 1b 111 Marriages Sep 1874 Drury Joseph Sheffield 9c 482 Drury Joseph Walter St. Saviour 1d 22 Marriages Dec 1874 Drury Joseph Ellesmere 6a 1375 Marriages Sep 1875 DRURY Joseph Wolstanton 6b 162 DRURY Joseph Gateshead 10a 1026 DRURY Joseph St Saviour 1d 77 Marriages Sep 1876 Drury Joseph Warwick 6d 779 Marriages Dec 1876 DRURY Joseph Kensington 1a 5 Marriages Mar 1879 Drury Joseph Tamworth 6b 445 Marriages Dec 1879 Drury Joseph Tadcaster 9c 943 Marriages Dec 1880 Drury Joseph Horncastle 7a 1041 Neither the 1851 or 1861 censuses appear to have any Joseph Drury born at Stockton about 1832 +/- 5 years. Stockton RD in fact, was largely in Co Durham, with just a few parishes in the North Riding of Yorkshire. These were transferred to other RDs at various dates. For those who may not know it, it is quite easy to discover what parishes made up a registration district by clicking on the name of the RD at FreeBMD and then following the links to a page in GENUKI, which gives the complete data, including when and where certain parishes were transferred out, when the RD was abolished or altered and where the registers are now. This can be of very considerable value in finding BMD entries. -- Roy Stockdill Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE