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This couple:
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The marriage took place (FreeReg) 19 Oct 1890, St Andrew, Dudley
Daniel Cox, 26, bachelor, Dudley Wood, Ironworker, father Daniel Cox, Miner
Catherine Pearson, 24, spinster, Dudley Wood, father Elijah Pearson, bricklayer
Witn, William Skidmore, Diana Cox

I can't find a baptism for Catherine, but she appears in the census with her father Elijah, b abt 1820, Kingswinford and mother Jane, born Herefordshire.

It seems Elijah Pearson married twice, firstly to Catherine Read, 14 Oct 1838, Holy Trinity, Wordsley, and secondly Jane Crow nee Rollins (Rawlings?), (Catherine's mother),13 Dec 1860, St Mary, Old Swinford (IGI- ODM, but no details other than date).

Jane Rawlings m George Crow, 26 May 1853, Kingsland, Herefordshire
Her father Samuel Rawlings, his father George Crow
(IGI ODM)

Elijah Pearson (this time born abt 1815, Kingswinford) appears in the 1851 census with his wife Catherine, born abt 1818, Kingswinford, their 9 year old son, William, b Kingswinford.
They are living with Catherine's parents William Read, aged 63, born Kingswinford (a potter), and Catherine, 64, born Dudley.

Catherine Read, although she says she was born in Kingswinford, was bapt Dudley 20 Oct 1818, d of William & Catherine Read (Non-Conformist Records on IGI -neither ODM or Easy, but another type of record, usually with a similar (ODM) record of where the bapt took place, but not in this case. I have A A Rollasons book of the Dudley Non-Conformist Records, which covers the Society of Friends (Quakers), The Old Meeting House, Methodist Chapel, Wolverhampton Street, New Street Baptist Chapel, King Street Independent, and King Street Methodist), and her bapt is not in there, so not sure where it would have been.

William Read & Catherine Taylor m 22 Sep 1805, Kingswinford (ODM)

England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 for Catherine Read
RG4: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths Worcestershire Wesleyan Piece 3372: Dudley, King Street (Wesleyan), 1804-1824

Actual copy of record on Ancestry
Wesleyan Church King Street Dudley
20 Oct 1818
Catherine Daughter of William & Catherine Read Parish of Kingswinford ,was born 10 July and Baptized 20 Oct 1818 by Thos Dowty

rockyfowler wrote:England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1970 for Catherine Read
RG4: Registers of Births, Marriages and Deaths Worcestershire Wesleyan Piece 3372: Dudley, King Street (Wesleyan), 1804-1824

Actual copy of record on Ancestry
Wesleyan Church King Street Dudley
20 Oct 1818
Catherine Daughter of William & Catherine Read Parish of Kingswinford ,was born 10 July and Baptized 20 Oct 1818 by Thos Dowty

Thanks RF - I've just checked again and that entry is definitely missing from Rollasons book!

His Transcriptions seem all over the place his candle must have blown out a few times

Thanks again RF I think there was also a son, John, about 1813/14 - he's not in the book either!
Incidentally, those Mackays below Catherine Read on the image you posted I think are one of the James Mackays, father and son, who were both Beadle/ Sexton at St Andrews, Netherton, and appear in countless marriage entries as witness.

Here`s John same Chapel etc

many thanks added some of that to Bcc