Robyn wrote, "Other than in modern hospital patient records, still births are simply not recorded, let alone registered anywhere, so entries in this Register can only be derived from personal correspondence or memory." While it is far both geographically and in record-keeping systems from historical Devon, stillbirths and children who died within minutes to a few hours of their birth were regularly recorded by many of the town clerks in colonial Massachusetts. I have been able to fill in additional information on many of my colonial families this way as these infants are much less likely to have extant gravestones than infants/children who died when they were slightly older. I would be very surprised if it were the only place in the world that recorded stillbirths, and indeed, Bev's response indicates that it is not. Liz Loveland Massachusetts, USA