Hi All, I know we are all aware that when literacy wasn't so widespread as today that some churches used 'professional' witnesses. This morning I have been scouring the online images of the above church looking for my INGHAM line (I managed to smash a 6 yr brick wall last night) and on the 16th Jan 1809 4 marriages on one page shows Robert Hargrave being one witness as three of the marriages, Joseph Smales two, the others being different. Now what interests me further is the fact these two witnesses change their signature between marriages. Anyway if at the turn of the 19th century your ancestors married here and you were trying to work out how these two people fitted into your family or were using them to try and prove family connections you now have a better idea Rob