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Hi amondg. I've just had a ten minute try. On a first look, it appears that a visit to the archives is required. They don't seem to have a digitized version of the parish registers. I'll have another look tomorrow when I'm more awake. Many thanks.

Thanks MollyC. I should have thought of that possibility, but didn't. My brain was just about to overheat and explode.

Is there anyone out there with any idea as to how this could be? See attachment.

These entries must surely relate to the same marriage?

It's a long time since I researched this branch of my family, so I have had to go back to my notes.

I do remember researching John Lawes Waters to see where he fitted in. I concluded that he was probably born in Bath, but could find no connection to John Waters and his wife Maria in Dale. I discounted him as being any further interest to me. I note that there is a baptism record for a John Laws Waters at Bath on the 18th February 1765, parents Charles Waters and Ann.

I do not have the burial record for Maria Hayes. Findmypast has the burial record for her at Dale in 1845 (Transcript gives her year of birth as 1769 which is probably calculated from the age given at the time of her death). I am unable to view the record as I have no subscription to FindMyPast.

I am satisfied that Maria John senior married Jeremiah Hayes at Dale on the 25th January 1821, her husband John having died prior to January 1820. If anyone knows different, please let me know.