Hello Listers, Is there anyone out there who has access to parish reg. for Hemingbrough, please? I have found on the IGI a marriage between Mary Maskill and William Sims, which took place on 23 December 1826 at Hemingbrough. I am most interested in any other information on the marriage record, most importantly to confirm the name of Mary's father. Many thanks for your time. June Wray in Adelaide

From: June Wray <junew@adam.com.au> > Is there anyone out there who has access to parish reg. for > Hemingbrough, please? I have found on the IGI a marriage between Mary > Maskill and William Sims, which took place on 23 December 1826 at > Hemingbrough. I am most interested in any other information on the > marriage record, most importantly to confirm the name of Mary's > father. Many thanks for your time.> Marriage entries in pre-1837 parish registers rarely give parents' names, not even the father's. The exception might be in the case of some prominent local worthy, aristocrat, lord of the manor, squire, wealthy landowner, etc, in which the incumbent felt he ought to ingratiate himself with the family by giving fuller details. However, these are few and far between. Normally, the likelihood of your finding her father's name in the register entry is about 1000/1 against, probably more. However, if you look at the IGI at FamilySearch you will see an entry for Mary MASKALL, born 25 March 1809, christened 2 April, at Hemingborough, daughter of William Maskall and Hannah. The batch no. is C109222 and the source the bishop's transcripts (copies of the registers) for Hemmingborough. This is an authentic extracted emntry from the official records and not a Mormon private submission, which are unreliable. If this was her it would make her 17 at the time of the marriage, in which case she was under age and would have needed parental permission. There is just a remote chance the father's name might have been mentioned but it's more likely just to say "with permission of parents" or something similar. The fact that the IGI gives the actual date of birth as well as the baptismal date suggests that the registers may have been Dade ones - and if you don't know what those are, may I recommend you to read my Newbies' Guide (URL below), which has a section on Dade Registers and also on how to understand the IGI. -- Roy Stockdill Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies Guild of One-Name Studies website: 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