St Cuthberts,Darlington

[gwen j]

I have a marriage between John Wharton and Sarah Scruton at St Cuthberts 14 12 1763 found on the IGI.I have looked at the Bishops Transcripts on Family Search but no marriage are listed for the yearly years.Can anyonbe help please?

[Ecneps]

Hello Gwenj

On familysearchlabs site, some of Darlington's BTs are listed under Parlington   

However, as you say, they seem to start with only burials and baptisms, so you may need to trawl right through to find the marriages as sometimes some of the transcripts are out of order

Durhamrecordsonline don't have marriage records for St.Cuthbert's for that year, however I did a search including the year, and the marriage is listed in the Paul Joiner marriage index, (that is pay-to-view)  http://www.joinermarriageindex.co.uk/search.php
so it looks as if the information you have from the IGI is correct.

Kind regards
Barbara
 

[gwen j]

Thank you for your reply Barbara.Have looked through all 252 pages for St Cuthberts and there are no marriages,in any order,for 1763! In fact,there seem to be very few marriages recorded at all!Would there be records anywhere else do you think?As I said in my original post,it's on the IGI so there should be a record of it somewhere!
Regards,
Gwenj

[gwen j]

Barbera,Just re read second part of your post! Will check that site out! Thanks again,
GwenJ

[Ecneps]

Hi GwenJ

The registers for St. Cuthberts are at Durham County Record Office, County Hall, Durham, DH1 5UL 
http://www.durham.gov.uk/Pages/Service.aspx?ServiceId=448

You may not get much more information from the record though, other than their names, and witnesses, and whether or not they were living in the parish at the time of the marriage

Barbara 

[Colin Cruddace]

Darlington library has St Cuthbert's records on film, and Indexes for the earlier ones. I might be going tomorrow and will check it out.

Regards,
Colin

[Colin Cruddace]

Hi Gwen,

Marriage at St Cuthbert's Darlington, page 93.
John Wharton of this Parish Gentleman & Sarah Scruton of this Parish Widow were married in this Church by Licence this 14th day of December in the year of our Lord 1763 by me Jas. Smith Sub-Curate
This marriage was solemnized }     Jno. Wharton
               Between us              }     Sarh. Scruton (both signed)
In the presence of  }    Robt. Wastell
                             }    Gerd. Wharton (both signed)

The marriage Index for 1754-1799 listed the following which might be of interest.
James Wharton = Mary Davis - 11 May 1784
William Wharton (Barnard Castle) = Ann Robson - 18 July 1791
Elizabeth Wharton = George Harrison - 26 Dec 1799

Regards,
Colin

[Ecneps]

Hi Colin,

Well done! 

Barbara
 

[gwen j]

Hi Colin,Thank you VERY much for that.As Sarah is noted as a Widow,would Scruton be her Maiden name or her married name?Its also interesting to see that there is a Gerard Wharton as a witness.Gerard Blisson Wharton,the Solicitor must have been named after him! I wonder where the middle name Blisson comes from? An unusual name,must look this up!Thanks again,Colin and if you get a chance to look at other references that I made I would be most grateful.

Gwen