Thanks Gordon that's great - but I was hoping for so much more!!!!!!!!!!!! Back to the drawing board. Elaine 'ello, Elaine, Can't help with Hartshead, but the Halifax Marriage (20 Sep 1813) just states .... Samuel BOTTOMLEY, Cardmaker, of Dewsbury, to Mary DRAKE of Brighouse, by Banns. Nothing else. Regards, Gordon.

From: "Elaine Sykes" <elaine.sykes@sympatico.ca> > Thanks Gordon that's great - but I was hoping for so much > more!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Back to the drawing board. > > Elaine > > 'ello, Elaine, > Can't help with Hartshead, but the Halifax Marriage (20 Sep 1813) just > states .... Samuel BOTTOMLEY, Cardmaker, of Dewsbury, to Mary DRAKE > of Brighouse, by Banns. Nothing else. Regards, Gordon.> Why were you hoping for more? If you were expecting the parents' names, forget it. In my experience these very rarely - indeed, if ever - were given in the parish registers. There was no statutory requirement to record them. I would, however, have expected in 1813 to see the marital status of the parties (i.e. bachelor and spinster, widowed etc), the names of witnesses (sometimes useful, sometimes not) and whether the groom and bride signed their names or made their mark with a cross. -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer 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