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Thanks for your interest Jen, but it's nearly pumpkin time here in South Australia, and I have to go to bed.

I've just looked at the transcripts, which at that time were patchy & incomplete. For 1768 there is only a list of burials.

To access the register images you need Search>Catalog, then enter the place only and click Search.

From the results, click on Church records. The resulting list includes the CofE BTs, but the Parish Registers are at the end of the list.

I may just be unlucky, but am wondering if there was a historical reason for dates not being included in a marriage register in 1768 - 1769. I have been looking at the digitised record on Family search, and the register for that time is, of course, all handwritten, with the banns dates and marriages all in chronological order within the one register.

I was after the marriage of James Storey and Sarah Robson in 1768. It's there, but like several others within about a year, simply says "were married in Felton Church by legal publication of banns in the year one thousand seven hundred & sixty eight by me W. Henderson, Vicar" then a statement about solemnization and witnesses. Not even banns dates!

The last recorded date is 22nd May 1768, then five marriages with the above statement, then he goes back to dating from one on the 18th May 1769. William Henderson was the vicar right through for many years, and there are no missing pages.

It seems odd that the period is a year almost to the day. 

Didy

This is part of a petition for free entry to the government hospital in Cape Town in 1841, but I can't decipher the last couple of words in the top line. Someone has suggested "indoor patient", but the p in hospital, petitioner and pray is quite different.

I would appreciate any other suggestions.

Didy