In my transcribing travails, I have usually found that if there is something out of the ordinary being recorded there has been a marginal note or even something written right across all the columns. I have often wondered just how an orphan's Baptism would be recorded --- and I believe that the parents' names would be entered but an indication would be noted that they are now dead (they didn't use such "nice" terms as "deceased" in those days!). No entry at all could be that the recorder (vicar, curate, off. min., or parish clerk) could only remember the child's name from the scrap of paper on which he jotted it down --- and which he has since lost! or he is fairly new to the parish and hasn't the courage to track down the parents and tell of his having already forgotten their names! Being facetious? no --- just aware of human failings! Geoff Ford Sydney NSW Transcriber 1851 Census Kea and 1851 Census Feock Cornwall Online Census Project http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html OPC for Kea Parish Church Geoff Ford Sydney NSW Transcriber 1851 Census Kea and 1851 Census Feock Cornwall Online Census Project http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kayhin/ukocp.html OPC for Kea Parish Church