My first guess would be that the first child died and the name was reused. But it is a guess. Is there a suitable death? My second guess is that there are 2 families. Such coincidences do occur. HTH Andy. At 12:49 02/02/05, you wrote: >Last November I was poking around on the IGI list and found a christening for my GreatGrandmother Esther Wase. It was fpr 8 Nov 1863 ad Wellingston,Stafford and is from Batch C167341 Source 1471183. > >Monday I was showing someone the IGI and attempted to find the same listing as before. However, this time I got a citation for 28 Mar 1869 Hope by Stoke Upon Trent, Stafford. Batch C166401 Source 1470999 >Call No. IT 12-19 > > >Is it possible that Esther was christened twice. Both records list the same parents, so I know they're both fo my Esther. Can anyone explain this discrepancy? > > > > >==== ENG-STS-THE-POTTERIES Mailing List ==== >The List for the Pottery Towns of the Ancient County of Staffordshire >