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To an extent, I agree, Craclyn. However, we must not assume that everyone is unable or unwilling. Using the website above (http://www.teamopolis.com/tools/bbcode-table-generator.aspx) and simply unchecking the "first line is a header" box, gives us a simple neat and quick form to enter details, which is a two-click cut and paste. Easy-peasy! I will look into it further, and see if I can make things prettier, without making it too complicated or tricky to use. Maybe a mod might like to comment? We could perhaps have a table generator on the rootschat forum somewhere?

If then, we take out the [th] tags and just use [td], we get this:

First Name	Last Name	Relationship	Marital	Gender	Age	DOB	Occ	POB
William	Parry	Head	M	M	33	1818	Powerloom overlooker	Pendleton, Lancs
Isabella	Parry	Wife	M	F	25	1826	-	Manchester

[table]
[tr]
[td]First Name[/td]
[td]Last Name[/td]
[td]Relationship[/td]
[td]Marital[/td]
[td]Gender[/td]
[td]Age[/td]
[td]DOB[/td]
[td]Occ[/td]
[td]POB[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]William[/td]
[td]Parry[/td]
[td]Head[/td]
[td]M[/td]
[td]M[/td]
[td]33[/td]
[td]1818[/td]
[td]Powerloom overlooker[/td]
[td]Pendleton, Lancs[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Isabella[/td]
[td]Parry[/td]
[td]Wife[/td]
[td]M[/td]
[td]F[/td]
[td]25[/td]
[td]1826[/td]
[td]-[/td]
[td]Manchester[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]
Which is better!

I recently came across this gang in the 1851 census, living in Manchester. I have also found the marriage of William and Isabella, in Eccles/Pendleton 1844, where her name is given as Huthersall and her father is an engraver. I can't find any matches in 1841. I am guessing that Robert must be Isabella's brother. Perhaps I am being unusually dim! Can anyone find the (H)uthersalls in 1841?

Hi, JustinL, Heywood and heatherjulie,and thanks again for your advice and expertise. I am sure you are correct when you surmise that the marriage records pre-1858 are from the Halliwell St community. What I had not realised was how tiny the jewish community was in Manchester in the early part of the C19th, or indeed that Manchester was itself only a medium-sized provincial town,which was growing at an incredible rate at that time. When looking up the Great Synagogue, I stumbled upon this book, about 2/3 of which is available as a 'preview' on Google books. I will ask my library/records office to get a copy.
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-hoNAQAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

I must confess that when you and others suggested possible other members of the family, I was a little sceptical, and asked myself how could I possibly be sure that the people others had found records for were indeed related, especially as the names are relatively common jewish names. Now I know how small the community was, I can be much more confident that for instance Asher and Sampson Sampson that you found, and indeed the Levy family of Shudehill are in fact related. Joseph Levy of Shudehill is mentioned in the book, as is a 'Levy' Sampson, who, I guess, is in fact, my GGGG, usually recorded as Levi Sampson.

Hallo again, and thank you for al this wonderful stuff you are digging up for me! I think I mentioned above that I was not previously aware of having significant jewish background, so a lot of this is new to me. I need to do some reading, 'Judaism for Dummies' might be a start! I need, even, to google up  Azkhenazi and Sephardic, as I don't know the difference!
I have tried (honest) to google The Great Synagogue, Manchester. I find that it was built in 1858. But, we have marriages recorded there before that date.
 

Betsy SAMPSON and  Samuel LEVY in 1852 at Manchester, Great Synagogue Manchester Lancashire 512/1/71

1845 Manchester Great Synagogue Elias Levy and Julia Sampson

Where would these marriages have taken place? And are the records available online? I have BMD indexes, but more detail would be nice. Also how would I begin to find a marriage record in the Jewish community in Manchester before 1837, ie that between Levi and Sarah, which was probably around 1820-1823? Would  trip to Manchester, either to the RO or to the Great Synagogue be worth my while?