Hi Paul I think that the numbering ignores the word saint, so Christ Church is in the correct alphabetical place between Benedict and Clement. I seem to remember this was in Michael Foster's book, Comedy of Errors, but I don't have time to check that at the moment. June Willing Guild of One-Name Studies member no 2117 Willing/Willings One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/Willing/ Willing/Willings DNA Project http://www.familytreedna.com/public/Willing/ Dominicus One-Name Study http://one-name.org/name_profile/dominicus-2/ On 17 Nov 2014, at 15:42, Paul Howes via wrote: > A few emails on this forum ten days or so back discussed the trouble I > was having locating a particular marriage within Norwich registration > district and the apparent rather strange approach to alphabetical > ordering of parishes within an RD. > > A kindly correspondent consulted some microfilm for me at the > Millennium Library in Norwich and has confirmed that the marriage of > John Howes and Mary Periment took place at Christ Church, New Catton. > You may recall that the page number of the marriage is in a sequence > between St Benedict parish and St Clement within Norwich RD. > > This particular church was like a branch office (I'm sure there's a > proper technical term but I don't know it!) of St Clement parish and > thus it seems that that is the reason it appears next to St Clement in > the alphabetical order of parishes. Next year when I'm back in > Norfolk, I will record the cardinal points for this and a few other > more obscure parishes/churches to try to make Norwich marriage lookups > a lot simpler for everyone. > > Regards > Paul > > -- > Paul Howes > www.howesfamilies.com > Researching House, Howes, Hows, Howse & Howze worldwide > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GOONS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message