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I am looking for a record of a marriage that I think took place in Wroxton in 1735 between John Hughes and Sarah Dillo.

This information comes from a note that a relative made about a decade ago when looking at this branch of the family. Unfortunately there's no source to verify it. I do have an ancestry subscription and I can't find any record there. They do have images of registers for Wroxton on ancestry but there is a gap for marriages between 1717 and 1740!

Would anyone be able to help me find (or disprove) this information!

Many thanks,

I'd be very grateful if anyone would be able to help me with searching for a Portuguese baptism from the late 18th C.

The person I am looking for has various anglicised spellings in the English registers, along the lines of Bernard Peychot or Barnardo Peykoto, but I think it should probably be Bernardo Peixoto. Aside from the name, all I have is a 1811 marriage in Cornwall which lists the groom as from 'Oporto' and a later baptism for his daughter that says he was a native of Portugal. Unfortunately I don't have an estimated age for him but I guess he would have been born before about 1790. He was a mariner.

If anyone knows how I might go about finding more information I'd be very grateful.

I'd be very grateful for some help on a marriage from Gretna Green. I've just discovered the 'marriage' of my GGGG grandparents, Hugh Carr and Mary Linsey at Gretna Green on 11 Aug 1813. The ages that they give elsewhere are somewhat inconsistent but I'm pretty sure that both were born in the 1780s so comfortably over 21 and the need for parental consent by the time of the marriage. I was wondering whether anyone knew of other reasons for going to Gretna at the time. He was an Irish Catholic and she was an English Anglican but the children were later baptised as Catholics. I know that Catholic marriages were not recognised in England at the time so I'm wondering whether they went over the border to avoid being married as Anglicans and perhaps to avoid disapproving family.

I was also wondering whether they followed it up with a regular (Catholic?) marriage in the area but I'm new to research in Scotland and not sure how to go about finding out. I'd be really grateful for any help on this.

Many thanks

I'd be really grateful if anyone would be able to help in tracing what happened to my GGG Grandma's husband(s).... I have posted about this before (http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=5db6hkamq50ccp2e56uonoh3i3&topic=401058.0) but I now have more certificates so thought I'd post again. I'm slightly concerned by the recurring disappearance of husbands but I'm especially trying to find what happened to the first so that I can work out whether the 2nd ('mine') was bigamous....

Catherine Storey married a John Ray at Deane Parish Church, Lancashire on 1st Jan 1856 (witnesses were the parish clerk and the sexton so possibly no family invited...). He was a 21 year old bachelor and a weaver from Rumworth whose father was also a weaver called John Ray.

Three years later Catherine had a daughter called Alice 'Storey' (i.e. registered under Catherine's maiden name). Alice is occasionally 'Ray' in the Census records but when Alice herself had a daughter before marriage she gave her the surname Storey and she later married using that name too. So I am assuming that John Ray was off the scene by Alice's birth.

Having said that, in the 1861 Census (RG9/2770; Folio: 58; Page: 5) Catherine uses the surname 'Ray' and says that she is married - John is not to be found, Catherine is living with her parents and children....

That was the 7th April 1861, by the 22nd July 1861 she married my GGG Grandfather, Thomas Leigh, at Haigh church claiming to be a spinster. Her father is one of the witnesses so he at least would have known she wasn't... I'm absolutely sure that the its the same person as on the birth of the next child she gave her name as Catherine Leigh, formerly Ray, formerly Storey.

So my guess is that John Ray deserted her within the first three years of the marriage and she hid this from the parish priest so her marriage to Thomas Leigh could go ahead. Does that sound likely and if so what happened to John Ray?!? (and later Thomas Leigh... and the next one, John Bond, too!)

Many thanks for reading all of this and for any help.

I'd be very grateful for any help in trying to work out this problem as I am at a complete brickwall.

My GGGG Grandma, Nancy Hall has one of those useful baptisms that gives you loads of information. She was baptised on 28 July 1805 in St Katherine's Blackrod and the record reads (I have an image of the original register) 'Nancy 2nd D of William Hall of Blackrod by Mary his wife D of Catherine Gorner of Ingglewhite born July 12th, Bap 28th' That looked fairly clear that Nancy was D of Mary Hall (nee Gorner) who was born to an unmarried Catherine Gorner (all the other records have the maternal grandfather's name. not a grandmother in sight).

I then looked for siblings. I can't find the 1st daughter but there are two boys. On the 26th July 1807 there is 'Thomas, 1st S of William Hall of Blackrod by Mary his wife D of Thomas Wilcock of Inglewhite' then on 11 Mar 1810 there is an identically worded record but for another Thomas javascript:replaceText('%20:(',%20document.postmodify.message); 2nd son of William etc.

I am trying to work out whether the mother, 'Mary D of Catherine Gorner of Ingglewhite' is the same person as 'Mary D of Thomas Wilcock of Inglewhite' and would be really grateful for any help as I am at a bit of a brick wall.

Many thanks