On 03/09/2013 18:42, Rex Johnson wrote: > I know from experience that the Civil Registration process in the 1850s was > not fully used.I have found a number of children baptised in parish records, > without any Civil registration entry. These are the ones difficult to trace > when you live miles away out of County You can hire the films of the Taunton parish registers from the LDS family history centres. It only costs a few pounds. You can find your nearest centre from the FamilySearch site. Rebecca