Hello John All church records were in Latin in the 16th and part of the 17th centuries, and all christian names were "Latinized". They are usually very easy to understand as you can figure out what was being recorded. Regards Elizabeth Yukon, Canada (presently working my way through a superb film of parish reocrds from Docking in Norfolk going back to the mid 1500s at my local Family History Centre - which is where I do most of my research)