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In FindMyPast Nottinghamshire Marriages there is a transcript of a BT of a marriage by licence at Colwick 27 Jan 1779, Joseph Mercer to Elizabeth Horsley, both of Treeton in West Riding.  This is Free to View at present.
https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=GBPRS%2FNOTTINGHAMSHIRE%2FMAR%2F000019369%2F1&tab=this

ADDED: Colwick is near Nottingham, so it looks as if they went to the far end of the next county for the marriage.

Hello Mark,

I appreciate you have a specific transcription issue with Ancestry.  What I was saying is I don't have much faith in Ancestry's indexing, if their cataloguing of the entire set of registers is at fault because they have not managed to recognise which body created it, despite it being on page 1 of every section, and they have clearly never looked at a map.  My family's entries in the early 20th cent. registers are indexed as being in West Yorkshire, which did not exist, and where they never lived.  Selby was never in West Yorkshire, it was in the West Riding but was a part of the large slice added to the North Riding to become North Yorkshire.

In 1974 there was a legal requirement for local authority records to be archived by a successor authority, but because of all the boundary changes there had to be some agreement about who dealt with divided authorities, using a general archival principal that existing collections should not be split up.  Records which were already in Wakefield stayed there.

Records which were not created by a local authority can go elsewhere.  It depends upon the Archives Office accepting them as appropriate to its present area of interest.

Molly

Working OK for me.  I think you should contact the webmaster because I know there have been problems with certain browsers, for which there are solutions.

There is around a 5-year discrepancy between the ages of Arthur E Hanson at death and in the 1939 register.

It just happens I have had my own FH research to do in Hulme earlier this year, which involved finding 5 addresses over a period of 15 years.  There is a good set of rate books on Familysearch at
https://www.familysearch.org/en/search/catalog/1132204
but they are tedious to use.  FS says there are two wards and there are street indexes.  Actually it was first divided into two wards in 1853, not clearly titled until 1854.  Street indexes first appear in 1858.  1862 has Medlock Ward mis-titled with no street index.  Wish I had known all that at the outset!
If you want to find house numbers you need to use the OS post-2ndWW large scale series, either 1:1250 scale in urban areas or 1:2500 in rural areas.  They are not on the 1st (A) editions everywhere.  There are a few places where the B edition is not yet out of copyright.