This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: component Surnames: STATHAM, MARSHALL Classification: marriage Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/surnames.marshall/4868/mb.ashx Message Board Post: Newark, Jan. 23. Thursday was married at Stratford-upon-Avon, after a courtship of twenty-six years, Mr. Miles Statham, coachman, to Miss M. Marshall, of Smitterfield. This respectable veteran of the whip has followed the above employment upwards of twenty years, on the Old Post coach from Birmingham to Oxford, in which service he has accumulated a good fortune. He has travelled, during his time, 353,808 miles, which is more than forty-four times the diameter of the earth. She has also lived in one place, as chambermaid, twenty-two years, in which capacity she has likewise acquired a consideralbe property. Source: True Briton (1793) (London, England) Friday, January 31, 1800; Issue 2211 I have no further knowledge of these individuals. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.