Hi Georgia, I had a look on the IGI and found the following that might help. I am afraid some of this disagrees with dates that you quoted. John Ferry Christening 17th June 1827 Houghton le Spring father Thomas Ferry mother Elizabeth Ferry Robert Smith Ferry Christening 12th April 1829 Houghton Le Spring ditto ditto Both shown on batch no. C023243 which shows these are extracted records and not patron submissions. Frances Ferrey Christening 5th Oct. 1823 Houghton Le Spring father Thomas Ferrey mother Elizabeth Ferrey William Ferry Christening 2nd Jan. 1825 Houghton Le Spring father Thomas Ferry mother Elizabeth Ferry Both shown on batch no. C023240 again these are extracted entries and not a patron submissions Jane Ferry Christening 7th June 1818 Houghton Le Spring father Thomas Ferry mother Elizabeth batch no. C030793 another Extracted entry not a patron sub. there was also this one that might be of interest. Mary Farrey birth 27th March 1814 christening 5th June 1814 Gateshead father Thomas Farrey mother Elizabeth. Batch no. P000592 The variations in the spelling of the surname might be because the curate each time wrote down the name as he heard it said. The Bishops Transcripts for Houghton Le Spring are on line at the familysearch site. www.familysearch.org Open the site, look along the top of the page for Search Records, from the drop down list select Record Search pilot, then click on the map of Europe and look for the title England, Diocese of Durham Bishop's Transcripts ca 1700-1900. Go there and then look under Durham where you should find in the list of place names Houghton Le Spring click on the place name and you should get up a list of years covered. The years I have quoted above from my findings should be covered but there may be gaps in the available BTs. If you find the ones you are looking for then you can either print the image out or save it to your computer, or do both if you choose. By looking at the Bts you may find more than you expected because you can also look at the burials and marriages at the same time as you are looking for baptisms. The BTs are not indexed and it is a case of going through them page by page. But you will find that the years covered are split into batches and each batch gives the number or pages that batch covers. if you can work out roughly where within that set number of pages the year you want will fall you can put a page number into the Goto Box at the bottom of the page and jump forward to that page. if it is not quite right you can then go back and forth through the pages using the previous and next buttons or change the Goto Box number again. It is all trial and error but worth persevering. Where did you get the dates of baptism that you have from? You will only get dates of birth for a child if it was written in the parish register or in the Bishop's Transcritps, which ever you look at. Civil registration did not start in England and Wales until July 1837 and before that there was only the church records for such details but not every curate added birth dates to the baptism register. Regards Jenny DeAngelis Spain. <<I am looking for records for the family of Thomas Ferry married to Elizabeth Smith Jul 29, 1820 Houghton-Le-Spring, County Durham, England Children: William Ferry baptized 1818 West Rainton, England Jane baptized 1818 West Rainton, England Thomas baptized 1820 West Rainton, England Frances, daughter baptized Oct. 5, 1923 and burial 12 Jan. 1824 Hetton, age 10 mo. John born Dec. 6, 1826 Easington Lane, County Durham, England and this is my husband's great grandfather and we have his birth date from the Latter Day Saints Church in the United States Robert Smith baptized 1828 Easington Lane, County Durham. These are all the children that I have found with their baptized dates. Don't have their actual birth dates>>.