hi paul
many thanks for your advice and help. I looked round norman cross and only found one marriage to an Elizabeth butler in dry drayton cambs in 1804 so I looked up round Nottingham where Elizabeth on the census links in with my family and it says she was born retford Nottinghamshire. I found a Wilson family in retford and a marriage to a john Jacques in 1807 and Elizabeth Wilson in Nottingham, but it did not say foreighn and was not written the French way Jeanne Jacques, I can only surmise they were sensitive about such things.the only other information is john death certificatein 1841 Nottingham claywoth parish it says he was 57 which would have made him born about 1784. could they have married in Nottingham where Elizabeth was from. or maybe Nottingham was a parrolled area. the story goes that they met when working in a big estate, he was in the stables looking after the horses and she was a servant. thankyou again heather