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But if there's only one David Herbert Smith you could guess that the service number shown in  the Index is likely to be his 

is there any way of reporting a useless digital copy?
Mine is mis-aligned, so Father may or may not have a first name, and I cannot see mother's first name at all.

She's ann at marriage (1859) , unseen on birth certificate(1860) , Lydia at birth address(1861) and Ann Eccleston (middle name) at 1864 baptism...

Yes, you can go on the website and report it. They will give you a refund and you can then buy the pdf instead. The digital image service Is fully automated, which is why it is so fast and so cheap. The pdf service needs someone to manually produce the copy so it takes longer and costs more, but you should then receive a perfect copy.

The marriage registers found in record offices and online are those which were held by churches, which usually deposit their registers with the record office when full. The copies of these registers, and the marriage registers used by the register office, are kept by the register office for the purpose of producing copy certificates, so any marriages which took place at a register office or e.g. at a nonconformist church which did not have its own register will not be available at a records office or online.
 
If the marriage registers at a register office have been indexed e.g. by a local family history society then you should be able to find out at which church a marriage took place. The exception is if it was registered in the registrar's marriage book, in which case it could have been either a register office wedding or a marriage in e.g. a non.confirmist church  Most of these indexes can be found at ukbmd.org.uk.

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Quote.    'We believe the Chapel did NOT have a graveyard.

    Note: any church within an urban environment may have had its graveyard closed after the Burial Act of 1853. Any new church built after that is unlikely to have had a graveyard at all.'

Thank you, that's a useful website which I hadn't previously seen. However, the comment about the chapel not having a graveyard refers to the later Methodist Chapel a few hundred yards away, and not the one I am interested in which was in Waterswallows Road. I understand that this later Methodist Chapel closed two years ago, its congregation having dwindled to just eleven members.

Edit: a link on that page does refer to the Methodist Chapel I am researching and that page also states 'We believe the Chapel did NOT have a graveyard.'
I can only conclude that the gravestone could have been moved there from another location.