Speculation about Mary Morgan and William Porter, 1790s

[Stanwix England]

I'm looking at a William Porter who was alive in the 1700s.

According to what I've uncovered he had at least two children, a son called George Porter born 1790 and a daughter named Mary (my ancestor), born 1795 both in Carlisle.

The mother of these children, according to transcripts not original sources on Ancestry, was called Mary Morgan.

I'm speculating that if they married at all, it will have been around 1790.

The only record I can find for a marriage between a William Porter and a Mary Morgan is for October 1789 in St Peter's Church, Liverpool, Lancashire. Which is over 100 miles away.

There are banns available for that marriage which state the parish for both of them, but I can't read Mary's. This William is a cabinet maker and I have no evidence to suggest my William was. Also it says this couple married by licence.

Could this be them? Did cabinet makers travel? And if it's them, why the licence?

[Maiden Stone]

I know of a cabinet-maker from Dumfries in Scotland who married in Preston, Lancashire, around 1800. The couple returned to Scotland to raise their children. Gillow of Lancaster was a famous firm of cabinet makers. Their products went all over England. Your man may have travelled to Liverpool by sea, if it was him.

[GailB]

The marriage on Ancestry shows that Mary Morgan was of Nannerch in Flintshire.

[Stanwix England]

Thank you very much Maiden Stone and Gail B, that is a real help. I would never have got that parish in a million years.

Also interesting to know that cabinet makers travelled, or may have travelled.