This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/AFB.2ACI/4760.1 Message Board Post: Since they were married here, check the church nearest to where Thomas lived--as a start==for the marriage record. That would give you Catherine's maiden name. If you are lucky, the baptismal records MIGHT have the county they were from. I have found this in some records from the 1870's--not all, but some.