I have posted today to the Genbrit list, in a thread about people with "seasoning" names, the following message. I suddenly thought it might be of interest to this list as well. I have in my files a copy certificate for the following marriage..... At Basford Register Office on 5 December 1899... Thomas SALT, 22, bachelor, railway fireman to Edith Mary PEPPER, 19, spinster I kid ye not! The respective fathers, Samuel Salt and Thomas Pepper, were both farmers. Did they arrange the marriage of their children, I wonder, for a joke over a couple of beers? I published this gem in my column "Roy's Ramblings" in the former Practical Family History magazine and commented: "I bet they made seasoned parents"! In the 1911 census they were still in Basford RD, at Netherfield, and had three little Salts. Does anyone recognise and "own" this family? I am happy to send a copy of the marriage certificate to anyone who claims them. -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE