Mick wrote: > It seemed strange but not unbelievable to marry someone with the same > surname, I have 14670 rows in a table of marriages in Almondbury parish for a period covering almost all of the C18th & some of the C19th. There are 257 rows where the bride and groom surnames match exactly - there may be others where there are different variations on the same name but probably not many. -- Ian The Hotmail address is my spam-bin. Real mail address is iang at austonley org uk