I have been looking at Quaker BMD transcripts for Banbury and am wondering if there is an 'expanded' version. It would be an enormous help to find the name of the father of the groom,for example, on a marriage record. ... or witnesses. Is there an 'expanded' version? and if so how can I access it? Bob Potter in Taasmania

In message <6d3846$3j084s@icp-osb-irony-out3.iinet.net.au>, Bob Potter <chopendoz@netspace.net.au> writes >I have been looking at Quaker BMD transcripts for Banbury >and am wondering if there is an 'expanded' version. >It would be an enormous help to find the name of the father >of the groom,for example, on a marriage record. > ... or witnesses. > >Is there an 'expanded' version? and if so how can I access it? > >Bob Potter in Taasmania > > It depends what transcript you are looking at at the moment! I assume you mean Banbury Monthly Meeting in England. Almost all surviving Quaker registers for England and Wales, pre-1837, are held in class RG6 in the National Archives. Images of these registers are on line at www.thegenealogist.co.uk/bmd . This is a pay per view/subscription site, but worth a subscription if you have any significant number of Quaker ancestors in England or Wales. The registers that contain marriages for Banbury MM are RG6/1332 (covering 1725-1769), RG6/1220 (covering 1662-1737), RG6/1569 (covering 1776-1792) and RG6/8 (covering 1796-1837). All except the last are (usually) copies of the marriage certificate, which typically gives the names of both parents of both parties and at least some of the witnesses, although the parents names may be missing, particularly in earlier years. The 1796-1837 contains abstracts of the certificates, but these still give the parents' names. Births from 1632 to 1775 and a few to 1782, and burials from 1655-1776 are also in RG6/1332, and both from 1776-1794 are also in RG6/1569. From 1795-1837 they are in RG6/34 and 35 respectively, and the original birth and burial notes from which the 1795-1837 registers were compiled are in the Quarterly Meeting registers (RG6/105 to 108). There is also an original register for Sibford Meeting (part of Banbury MM) which is not in the National Archives, and so not at www.thegenealogist.co.uk . The register is at Oxfordshire Record Office, reference NQ1/1/R2/1. It contains births 1685-1784 and burials 1689-1774 (no marriages). In theory, the entries in it should be duplicated in the MM registers, but it is possible that some are not. As far as I know, there is no copy of it online. -- Chris Pitt Lewis