I'd be very grateful for any help in tracing a marriage from the 1850s that I simply can't find anywhere. It is between Cowper Barron and Sarah ? in the early 1850s and probably in Alston/Nenthead.
A bit of background. The 1861 Census shows Cowper and Sarah Barron (wrongly transcribed as Burn on ancestry) with three children in High Galligill, Nenthead, Alston. Cowper and Sarah are 29 and 26 respectively and the oldest child is 7 (so born about 1854). The whole family have 'Alston, cumberland' as place of birth. The reference info is Class: RG9; Piece: 3898; Folio: 6; Page: 5. In the 1851 Census Cowper is living with his father and unmarried.
It seems likely that Cowper and Sarah married at some point between 1851-1861, probably before 1854 when the first child was born. I can't find this marriage anywhere. I've tried every variation of the name that I can think of in freeBMD and been through the Barrons in the indexes for 1850-1855 and can't find it. I'd be really grateful for any help tracing it in the indexes or in the parish/church records. One thing I should mention is that Cowper himself was baptised in the Primitive Methodist Church at Nenthead so that may be a clue. It may be that the marriage never made it to the index or even that they weren't actually married but at the moment it is driving me mad!
Many thanks for any help in tracing this
