Thank you and apologies. I don't speak German at all and therefore sometimes pick up records that are close to what I am looking for but not actually right. I do appreciate hugely your help and you have enabled me to cover 15 generations of my family. I am trying to tie up loose ends now. Trying to go back further and find the parents of one Martin Matthes, and also looking for an elusive Alfred Matthes, who appears in a Census 1911 record in the UK as a German National age 25, but nowhere else I can find. I think he may be the grandson of Christian Friedrich Matthes hence seeking his marriage records in this request. Thank you so much and please bear with me, I have nearly finished! Kindest Regards, Karen Appleyard (nee Matthes).