I have just found a record of the marriage of two of my relatives at the church of St John the Evangelist in Philadelphia. The marriage was in 1887 between Ebenezer Clarke and his sister-in-law, Elizabeth Clarke. Ebenezer was a ship's carpenter. The home of both of them was Seacombe, Cheshire, England. Elizabeth had married Joseph Clarke at Liverpool, England in 1864. Joseph was also a mariner who disappeared from the records in the 1880s. It is not known if Joseph died or had deserted Elizabeth. This raises a number of questions: 1. Why did Elizabeth travel all the way from England, probably leaving her young children in the care of her sister, to marry? Ebenezer, being a mariner, could well have been there anyway. It is possible that they did not know if Joseph was still living and wanted to have a bigamous marriage away from those who might find out. The difficulty with this is that they both immediately went back to England to live openly as man and wife. 2. I understand that the Church of St John the Evangelist is Roman Catholic. Ebenezer and Elizabeth were certainly not Catholics, very definitely Protestants. Is there another Church of St John the Evangelist in Philadelphia that is Protestant. This is the main question that I am putting to the List. David Railton Cheshire England