Dear Elizabeth, Thank you for your healthy skepticism... it keeps me on my toes. :) Lets see...  >You say you are certain that Ann was christened in  >Plymstock , have you found this ? I should clarify that I do not as yet have empirical, irrefutable proof that she was christened in Plymstock... and I doubt that I ever will. However, the Lang name is VERY prominent all the way from the beginnings of the 1695 - 1747 register and at least up through the end of that century. Their roots run deep in Plymstock. That's not to say they don't elsewhere... has anyone done one of these "one-name study" things on the Lang name? Last night I finished going through the 1695 - 1747 registry and have pieced together the Lang family as best I can (until I have time to go through the other registries). There is an Anne Lang born to Henry Lang 21 Nov. 1735. That would have put her roughly 25 - 26 years old at the time she married Phillip. She was listed as "of this parish, spinster" on the Banns. https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-1-14546-633-72?cc=1804330&wc=MMBD-PFS:515723165 And that's all I have at this point as evidence that she belongs to the Plymstock parish. >And they managed ,as we still do here in the UK , to  >move about in fall or winter and spring  !!!!  we aren`t  >talking 100s of miles here .. True. However, they didn't have cars with heaters, either, and a gravely ill family member or a frail infant would have been enough incentive to wait until spring... I would think, even under the threat of an order of removal. Of course, this is all conjecture. I do not yet have enough evidence to form any solid conclusions. Perhaps I should choose my words more carefully in the future so as not to make myself seem so certain. At this point, I do not believe that Richard Page was a son of Philip and Ann. But I'm not ruling it out, either. I simply want to exhaust all possibilities before giving up on the idea altogether. I am told that there are other nearby parishes that have a heavy dose of Lang blood in them as well. Until I have time to sift through all of them I am going off the assumption that Ann (Anne) Lang was christened in Plymstock in 1735. Sure would like to find access to court/poor records for Brixton and Plymstock... Best Regards, Blaine