Transcribed from marriage record:

Page 11, #21 1848 Marriage solemnized at Zion's Chapel in the District of Northallerton in the County of York - First January 1848, George Bellamy 21 years, bachelor, plate layer, residence at Ainderby Steeple, father John Bellamy, labourer and Jane Hodgson, 21 years, spinster, residence Northallerton, father Ralph Hodgson, Joiner.

Married in the Zion Chapel according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the said chapel by me S. G. Butterwick, officiating minister. Witnesses: Thomas Bellamy, Jos. T Robinson, George Dowson. Note at bottom: I certify the above to be a true and correct Copy of an Entry in the Marriage Register Book for Nothallerton District, extracted this second day of December 1863, Edward Hanby, Superintendent Registrar.

Note: A definition of this term is as follows: PLATELAYER - men who laid and maintained the railway tracks in Britain and the word actually predates railways being derived from the very old "plateways" which existed hundreds of years ago, mainly for moving coal