Hi Wendy Thanks again. Your further advice has convinced me that the servant angle (a bit of lateral thinking on my part) is not going any where. However, it is useful to know that one can't rule out a baptism record as a possibility even though it may be 30-60 miles from his residence at the time of his marriage. Does your knowledge of servant employment extend to courtship? I'm assuming that the distance of 8-10 miles between Fifield and Chastleton (bride's abode) suggests that at some time they lived at the same place or worked at the same place, or were related (second cousins etc). As for your other advice, one has to deal with the cards one is dealt with. The Field branch remained in Fifield as agricultural labourers ( as were most of the male population before the Industrial Revolution) before migrating to New South Wales in 1850. Cheers Maxwell.