Marriage of Sarah Shortridge, unclear witness name, suggestion
The marriage was at St. John's, Park, 31 Mar 1851, and has a query on a witness name:
"M~ Miller". This was almost certainly one of the family of George Miller, business partner of the bride's father John Shortridge. The 1851 census was the previous day(!) and the Miller family were residing at Wadsley House, showing wife Mary, son Henry and daughter Mary A. (Afraid I did not note the full ref. to the image, in HO 107 2335, Sch.no. 102 within Wadsley.)
Miller, Blackie and Shortridge had constructed a large part of the railway from Manchester as far as Retford, John Shortridge was responsible for the Wicker Arches. His address Wybourn House later became the Belle Vue public house and is now a nursery adjacent to the Cricket Inn Road supertram stop.
Re: Marriage of Sarah Shortridge, unclear witness name, suggestion
The parish record on this site also struggles with Miller. It has:
Married in the presence of M~ Miller,Richard Kennedy,William Brown,Sarah Martha Shortridge.
An alternative eye at FamilySearch.org has one the witnesses as Martin Millon
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6652-NLVH
Re: Marriage of Sarah Shortridge, unclear witness name, suggestion
Thank you both for your opinions. Obviously not easily resolved. Mary Ann seems possible, I think it was more usual then for the younger generation to be witnesses. Sarah Martha Shortridge was Sarah's sister in law; but they are not my family, I had been looking at the businesses.
George William King was a civil engineer who took his wife to Canada, where he died. At the 1861 census Sarah was a widow living in Albert Road, Heeley with two children born in "America New Brunswick".