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[Pam Downes]

Re the marriage of Alexander Goodfellow and Sarah Driver at Manchester Cathedral, I'm not so sure about the Cathedral's parish registers being at the Archives.
https://www.manchester.gov.uk/directo...s/category/785
Do phone and check before you go.

Ten minutes later . . .
Don't bother to go to Manchester Archives. The Cathedral registers are not there.
https://www.manchestercathedral.org/history/archives

If you search on Ancestry for Alexander by name only you might need to scroll down a bit as there are two marriage entries. One is just a transcription of the basic details, the other is a copy of the register. That's found in the Manchester, England, Marriages and Banns, 1754-1930 (Cathedral) dataset.

You might also be lucky with the parish registers for St James Ashton. (Marriage of John William Sunderland and Ann Ellen Goodfellow.) They're held at Tameside Local Studies and Archives Centre, but the list is set out so badly it's difficult to tell which records refer to which parish.
https://www.tameside.gov.uk/archives...history/parish
Scroll down to the bottom of the page for address and contact details.
I suspect it might be quite local to you, and if so would save you £9.25 for the certificate from the GRO.

Ancestry might also be free at the Tameside Archives. Not sure about the technicalities (I'm totally useless at techie stuff!) of being able to print out something from Ancestry at a library - you might have to take a USB stick and download stuff to that.

Pam