Diane: I suspect you will get a better response to your message if you ask a specific question. After all, the answer to what you have asked could well be "Yes" or "No", neither of which would tell you anything worth knowing! As for myself, although my answer is "No, not me", I do know that Thomas Wigham and Alice ("Allice") Allan married at Gateshead St Mary's on 2 September 1815. If you look at the BTs for Durham Diocese on the Mormon "FamilySearch" web site you should be able to see a facsimile of the Bishop's Transcript for that marriage. I haven't looked at it (yet) so I'll leave that pleasure for you. I don't know what extra details it will give, but be warned that they will not be anything like what you would get from a post- 1 July 1837 marriage entry. You should find out, however, whether the wedding was after the calling of Banns or whether it was by Licence. You may also be told that they were bachelor and spinster, or perhaps one or both of them was a widow(er). If either was from another parish you should be told which parish that was, or whether they were "both of this parish". You should also get the names of two witnesses, one of whom might be the parish clerk, a "regular", so check other marriages from around that time to see whether he witnessed most of them. St Mary's is the mediaeval parish church of Gateshead. It was to survive serious damage in the "Great Fire and Explosion" of 1854 but when the population moved away from the town centre in the mid-20th century it became redundant and after another serious fire became for a few years a fine art auction room before being taken over by Gateshead Council for use as a Heritage Centre. I, and no doubt others on the List have attended a variety of events, exhibitions, courses, conferences etc there - on the very spots where the weddings and baptisms concerned took place! Geoff Nicholson -----Original Message----- From: Diane Taylor via <northumbria@rootsweb.com> To: northumbria <northumbria@rootsweb.com> Sent: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 18:59 Subject: [NMB] William Wigham Son of Thomas WIGHAM and Alice ALLAN of Gateshead, born June 1/4 1818 at Gateshead. William married Margaret MacDonald at the Newcastle upon Tyne Registry Office 9 August 1841. They immigrated to New York, leaving Newcastle on the Sarah & Arsilia and arrived in New York 25 October 1842 along with Lancelot Armstrong a mason and Thomas McNair a blacksmith. William's died in New York on 9 July 1846. I found his death in the New York newspaper index Barber Collection. To date I haven't been able to find out what happened to Margaret. Is anyone on the list researching this WIGHAM family please? Cheers, Diane New Zealand .. Please quote the minimum necessary to put your reply on context. Please introduce yourself at the top of every post. The NORTHUMBRIA FAQ page is located at http://www.bpears.org.uk/NorthumbriaFAQ/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORTHUMBRIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message