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Hi there, You may well be on the right track, all you need is a little more proof. Have you tried searching both FreeReg and Familysearch (both free transcripts) to see if there is a child of that name with that father's name baptised anywhere in the area (not just Halkyn itself, that may be the abode) at around that date or indeed any other children to that father that you may be able to trace down their lines and join up? Don't forget to allow flexibility with dating as marriage regs can have someone as 21 when it means 21 or over! And please note I got tangled up as there were at least two families at the time descended from two different Robert Roberts. How did you end up back at this particular marriage? Love M

Thanks for that Fran, I had bought the local family history society transcription but Mary and John Evans did not appear, although they were in the burial register for St Mary. Reddkite has now sent me a photo of Mary's MI as the graveyard seems to have been cleared and it is now visible. The information on it is very clear and says she is the wife of John, of Bodlondeb. Burial 1842. This matches the burial register. Are you another cousin? M

Hi Haydn, thanks for looking, yes I think that must be the answer. Never mind, we have lots of bits of information about them and even a possible marriage turned up at Llanrhychwyn by PW1 which I didn't see before. Thanks again, Marian

Hi again Haydn, It's just that both John and Mary Evans of Bodlondeb are definitely in the St Mary Trefriw burial register but neither of them have an MI there. I originally assumed that they were too poor but that now seems unlikely given the stuff I've gathered on the family they seem to have been reasonably well-off. I have no idea what a slatemaker/quarryman of that era would've earned but there was also an extended family who all seem to have had jobs such as blacksmith, quarrymen, joiners. Marian