At the end of the day the new data on the GRO site is a transcript All transcripts are prone to error, be that the GRO index on freebmd or Findmypast, Ancestry and other sites or the new GRO data Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 12-May-17 6:13 PM, Liz via DERBYSGEN wrote: > Following our earlier correspondence regarding Henry BOWDEN I thought you > might be interested in this. > > I was just tidying up some of my research when I came across a Christian > name of a girl called Basiless! I was somewhat confused as I'd never heard > of this name before. Was it an error, ie could this have been a boy called > Basil? Knowing I then had the place, year and quarter I decided to check on > FreeBMD. What a surprise - the child was definitely a girl and her name was > Vasilesa. Still not totally convinced I was able to look for a baptism and > much to my relief the FreeBMD was correct and agreed with the baptism. > > So, do be very careful what you accept as gospel. > > Liz