The query about what appears in a parish register entry for a marriage does not have a definitive answer. Most of the time all you get is the names of the two parties; in some parishes the register may state that one of the parties is from another parish, and often it is named. In a few instances you may get more, usually because one or both of the parties is from a higher social level, e.g. "John Smith of this parish and Jean Brown, daughter of Baillie George Brown, were matrimonially contracted (date) and having been regularly proclaimed were married (2nd date)." However, in many parishes even the daughter of the minister are not identified as such. Usually you can depend on a landowner's daughter to be noted as to her father, and sometimes her mother. Note also that the church register is a register of the proclamation of banns, which was a legal requirement, and often what you get is the date that banns were first proclaimed, and not the marriage date. Also, it is often unclear in the registers which parish the marriage was performed in, where the parties have their banns proclaimed in two parishes. One has to assume the bride's parish is more likely. There is no organised consistency about OPR registers apart from the form of words being used. This was one of the reasons for introducing civil registration in 1855. Happy hunting! Gordon Johnson.