Easebourne can be a difficult area for research and I doubt that there is a quick fix to your problem. Easebourne lies close to both the Surrey and Hampshire borders and this must be born in mind continually, especially when looking for marriages. It is also adjacent to Midhurst, a market town that draws people in from a wide area. It is also adjacent to a long tongue of land that is a detached portion of the parish of Steep in Hampshire and that is a location for both baptisms and marriages of folk from Easebourne. So, you are looking for the marriage of a William NEWELL before 1746 and so even if you can find it, you are not going to get much information from the parish register entry because it is before the advent of the ruled registers. In your place, assuming that you have already checked FamilySearch, I would check the Sussex Marriage Index, Surrey Marriage Index and Hampshire Marriage Index (excludes Isle of Wight). All these have been published on CD and are complete for all extant CofE registers pre-1837. The Sussex Marriage Index also includes Marriage Licences and they do provide extra information about the bride & groom. Don't forget that these are indexes and so anything found needs to be verified by checking the original register entry. As a result of the paucity of information that you are likely to get from a parish register search, you will need to make additional searches to confirm the results. In your place, I would check for a Will or Administration in Chichester Archdeaconry, Winchester Archdeaconry & Consistory Courts, Archdeaconry & Commissary Court of Surrey and the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC). All have published indexes pre-1800 (at least); the PCC Wills (but not administrations) can be searched on the TNA Online web site and the British Origins web site now has many of the other courts. If you can find a Will, as well as looking for the names of the widow and children, see if there is any mention of land held in a particular Manor as that can be a crucial piece of information. Easebourne and much of the surrounding area lies within the various Manors owned by the Cowdray Estate and it is possible that William NEWELL was a tenant of one of those Manors. There are about 20 of these Manors, each with their own records and all that survive are now deposited at the West Sussex Record Office. I suggest that you start with the Manor of Easebourne Priory and the Manor of Verdley and work your way out from there. The records pre-1733 are written in Latin; but you will be looking at a period that is likely to be after that date, at least initially, so the records will be in English. The minutes of the Court Baron, amongst other things, record changes in tenancies, deaths of tenants and who inherited that tenancy, crucially recording the name of any widow who was awarded her 'bench'. What you will be looking for is an announcement of the death of William NEWELL and then check each successive Court Baron to see who inherited his tenancy. The entry will give you the name of the land he occupied and you can then track backwards in time for that land and see whom William NEWELL inherited it from and that way, you might pick up his father's name. The search sounds as if it will be a long one, but that is not necessarily the case. Many of the volumes (heavy tomes, actually!) have contemporaneous surname indexes located either right at the front or rear of the book, so it may only take a few minutes to check each one and many are now available to view on microfilm. I have needed to research in the Easebourne area many times in the past 20 years and I have tackled similar problems to the one that you are now facing and there really isn't an easy solution - at least I didn't find one! Best wishes, Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex