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 368 NOTES AND QUERIES. [i2s.vm.MAY7.i92i. Hamilton, Esq., of Wishaw (subsequently) Lord Belhaven and Stenton), to Miss I Penelope Macdonald, dau. of Ranald Mac- donald, Esq., of Clanranald. At Edinburgh, Feb. 25th, 1789, Alexander Duncan, surgeon in Cullen, to Miss Duncan, clau. of John Duncan, Esq., of Jamaica. At Hart-thorn, Dumfries, Sept., 1789, John Martin, of Kilwhanity, to Miss Mary King. At Durham, Sept., 1789, Edward Clavering, Esq., of Berrington, Durham, to Miss Jacobina Leslie, youngest dau. of Patrick Leslie Duguid, of Balquhain. At Edinburgh, Sept., 1789, Richard Hinckman, merchant in Glasgow, to Miss Jane Jaffray, dau. of Provost Jaffray, Stirling. At London, Sept., 1789, Hervey Aston, Esq., to the Hon. Miss Ingram, dau. cf the Earl of Irwin. At Holyrood House, Sept., 1789, John j Maclaren, Esq., of Jamaica, to Miss Lea. At London, Sept., 1789, Thomas Pit- cairne, Esq., Major of the 17th Regiment of Foot, to Miss Charlotte Proby, second dau. of Charles Proby, Esq., Commissioner at Chatham. At Edinburgh, Sept., 1789, John Johnson, attorney in Hull, to Mrs. Macdowal, widow of Mr. Macdowal, surgeon in Edinburgh. At Aberdeen, Sept., 1789, Thomas Black, druggist in Aberdeen, to Miss Margaret Innes, dau. of Mr. Innes, Commissary Clerk of Aberdeen. At KirktonhiU, Sept. 7th, 1789, William Richardson, of St. Vincent, to Elizabeth, dau. of David Gardiner. JAMES SETON-ANDEESON. 39, Carlisle Road, Hove, Sussex. BANNS - CUM - MARRIAGE REGISTERS. j Genealogists can often trace a marriage toi some limited locality, and though convinced that the ceremony took place thereabouts, ! fail to find any written record of it. I am now at work on some Suffolk re- ', gisters which throw a little light on elusive j marriage entries. The earlier banns books are too often j missing, but here I found a torn sheet of ai banns book, containing portions of ten! forms for the publication of banns. Six ! of these are torn off, leaving only a little lettering on the margin, but three of the ! remainder are not only banns, but banns- cum -marriage registers, signed and wit- nessed as well. The form for publication of banns is duly filled in and signed, and at the foot of the form, in the cramped space available, is a statement that " This marriage was duly solemnized " on such and such a date, signed by the contracting parties, the clergyman, and two witnesses. These three marriages took place in 1757 and 1760 and though the marriage registers proper of the parish cover these dates, they are not mentioned in them. The marriages are those of Thomas Vincent of Wilby, Matthew Abbot of Eye, and Thomas Mark of Redlingfield, all of Suffolk. I have explored many church chests and rescued " slips " containing entries, omitted in the registers, and the deliberate crime of "camouflaging" a marriage as banns conveys a hint of great importance to genealogists. H. A. HARRIS. Thorndon, Suffolk. ' How TO BE HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED.' - It may be worth recording that the above title of a work by the late Rev. Hardy, C.F., which had a considerable vogue some years ago, was not original. It occurs as the title of Discourse xxni. in the fourth volume of -the Works of the Rev. Philip Skelton, Chaplain of the Magdalen Asylum, Dublin, which were published for the benefit of that institution in Dublin in 1770. H. L. L. D. WE must request correspondents desiring in- formation on family matters of only private interest to affix their names and addresses to their queries in order that answers may be sent to them direct. " Zoo." The earliest instance at present forthcoming is in a letter of Macaulay's of about the year 1847 : "We treated the Clifton Zoo much too contemptuously" ('Life and Letters,' 1878, vol. ii., p. 216). Can readers of ' N. & Q.' furnish earlier examples ? ' In the early 'thirties of the nineteenth century the current colloquialism was " the Zoological." C. T. ONIONS. A BLACKSMITH'S EPITAPH. The oldest example I have of this epitaph is from the tombstone in Walton churchyard, near Liverpool, to George Miles, blacksmith, who died in 1719. Can any reader quote an earlier one ? CHAS. HALL CROUCH. 204, Hermon Hill, South Wpodford, E.I 8,