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Hi Chris, indeed I am! A.N. Other from Hull did a lot of travelling round the north east getting information on Whinhams. He was in touch with my dad. He produced a lot of family trees for the various branches, some good, some bad! I too eventually started doing loads of research on the Whinhams and have several private trees on Ancestry for the various branches, trying to get back to a relatively common root.....frustrating, the records run out before there's any merge! I managed to get the Hull group back to Rothbury via Alnwick. Even more frustrating, DNA gave me a relationship to the Hull branch but I run out of Rothbury registers before I can make a link.....its there somewhere.
Look forward to hearing from you, Janet

COMPLETED  18 November 2017

Yes, I agree that is probably my next best step.

Hi Mike

Many thanks for your prompt and informative reply. Since my first post, I have unearthed some circumstantial evidence that suggests the marriage might have taken place in Mendham. My understanding is that pre-1678 parish records for Mendham did not survive. So, I think I will have to make do with Boyd's marriage index. The FindMyPast transcript of the latter gives the 'place' as "Archd" (as opposed to Archd M. L.). Even if this is a reference to an Archdeaconry of Suffolk Marriage Licence, I think I am no further forward because those 1675 ML's do not appear to have survived. C'est la vie!

Graham

Pete,
I'm descended from another daughter....Bella. I have a photograph of Bella with Jane and, I think, another sister, Mary. Robert did marry Elizabeth Moor but no wedding record. Another brother married at Gretna so I guess ours was probably a cross border too.