Hi Reg, Another thought for you. What if the child's mother and father had died. I realise a little ambiguous, but who would then be put on the christening register, was it just parents and if there were none but it was in the custody of someone else, would they be put on there or left blank? Say perhaps the child was taken in by the mother's sister who was married, hence no Oakley name and as she wasn't the legal parent, her name could not go on the document? Lateral thinking really coming in to play here!!! Emma