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This may be the correct family but it looks as though there may not be a marriage.
There are relevant deaths in Surrey - does that make sense?

Currently nothing make sense! The DNA match is around a 2nd cousin to the lady I am helping. She is also around a 2nd cousin match to a shared match. Neither of the matches have a tree and the other shared matches are in the 20cM area so not much to go on there.

She has a match who must be either a 1st cousin or a half niece. We have ascertained the link is via this match's paternal line, but his name is Smith so progress is slow. There is a very strong connection to the name Traynor from Edenderry and then there is another connection to the name Ryan but I can't get back far enough yet to see where from. There is also a possible link to Hughes. The Leeds method threw no light on the matches at all - so I think there may be some endogamy.

The Richard Lalor Power born 1935 married in Luton in 1958. I think we will have to buy the marriage certificate so we can get a father's name if we are going to progress this line! See if it's Algernon I've found the tree you mentioned, thank you!

Thanks for the look up - this marriage is proving very difficult to find! I know the Jesus records were possibly not very well kept in this period as there is a long gap in the records right at this point so it may be they did marry there and the record was not written or has been destroyed. I will keep searching!

At least I was some help! I had already taken a look at the Hunts Quaker records in case they appeared in there but alas, no Overalls were there.  There was an Overall mentioned in Hemingford Grey, I can't remember off the top of my head who or what it was. Hemingford Grey stuck out to me as there was a big Quaker burial ground discovered there in the 2000s and there is mention of burials there in the Hemingford parish registers which are denoted as "buried at Oubourn". However, I have just checked the PR and it was a marriage, John Overal of Ramsey m. Sarah Mitchell of St Stewkley (sic) by licence Nov 1 1711 and a burial Martha Overall w. of Henry buried in linnen, five pounds being divided between the informe and the poor of the parish 27 Feb 1680. The "Oubourn" burials start in 1687 so Martha is too early! I have Overalls in my tree but they are from Essex and came to Linton.

Thanks Galium! That baptism fits the family perfectly

And how exciting that Cambridgeshire (and hopefully Huntingdonshire) records will be coming to Ancestry soon...I had not heard that, I'll keep my fingers, toes and eyes crossed 

These are now not expected until 2025. Transcriptions of Ramsey PRs will be uploaded to CHFHS website very soon. www.chfhs.org.uk They are ready, but we are unable to upload new data atm.

Contact the St Catharine's College archive and ask them to look for the marriage to ascertain whether it took place there: archivist@caths.cam.ac.uk

St Catharine's was known as Catharine Hall until 1860. There are several marriages in the Great and Little Shelford registers that took place at Catharine Hall Chapel, plus several more at other colleges. The Little Shelford advowson was bought by the college in the 1870s so there is a connection albeit later than the marriage you are looking at. (Buying advowsons gave colleges a means of securing the rapid succession of Fellows, most of whom were in holy orders.)