Looking for confirmation of information, who Peter married, I have looked at BMD index and find two possibilities. I know wife name was Elizabeth. There are two choices in Bradford, Yorkshire - West Riding 1850 Apr-May-Jun, Volume 23 Page 149. I Hope that someone can help, this part seems to be the hardest as I have others who cannot be found easily. Thanks Dave

From: David Swallow <dswallow4@cogeco.ca> > Looking for confirmation of information, who Peter married, I have > looked at BMD index and find two possibilities. I know wife name was > Elizabeth. There are two choices in Bradford, Yorkshire - West Riding > 1850 Apr-May-Jun, Volume 23 Page 149. > > I Hope that someone can help, this part seems to be the hardest as I > have others who cannot be found easily.> There is only one way in which you can get absolute confirmation and that is to BUY the marriage certificate. I am afraid that sometimes genealogy costs money and there is no way round it. You may just have to bite the bullet and cough up! However, I note from FreeBMD that the two possibilities are Elizabeth HEMMINGWAY and Elizabeth ROBERTSHAW. If you look at the 1851 census at Ancestry you will find only one Peter Hollings in the Bradford area, as far as I am aware, and he was living at Calverley, aged 26, with wife Elizabeth, aged 20, and 1-month-old son John. The image reveals that Elizabeth was born at Calverley, so presumably circa 1830/1. Now go to www.familysearch.org and enter Elizabeth Hemmingway in the IGI search box, born 1830 with parameters of +/- 2 years either side. You will see there an Elizabeth HEMINGWAY [sic, one M] baptised at Calverley on 10 April 1831, daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth Hemingway (batch no. C007252, source the bishops' transcripts for Calverley Parish Church). Now try the same thing for Elizabeth Robertshaw, born or baptised about the same time. You will find 2 or 3 entries for females of that name christened in Bradford but none at Calverley. It is, of course, by no means 100 per cent certain, but my money would be on the Elizabeth Hemingway baptised at Calverley. However, as I said, you may have to buy the certificate to be sure. Bradford Registration District covered a great many churches where the marriage could have taken place, Calverley being one of them. -- Roy Stockdill Editor, Journal of One-Name Studies Guild of One-Name Studies website: www.one-name.org Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE