Ingrid, There was no requirement for the church to record burials of stillborn children - I have documentary evidence on either side of your date of several occurences where they were almost certainly buried in the churchyard in a coffin ordered from the village carpenter & undertaker, who was also the Parish Clerk, so although they were being buried in the churchyard with the full knowledge of the church authorities, there is no record in the burial registers. Similarly, though rather earlier, at Debden the coffins of two stillborn children can be seen in the patron's vault, but they do not appear in the records. In the situation I cite above, the undertaker's records record the making of coffins, making it clear that they are for still-born children, and at least one also records burial fees at the churchyard rate. So you may well find evidence in undertakers records - if you can find them, as they tend to be elusive. In this case, there probably wasn't a "spare" coffin handy to place the infant in with a "surrogate" mother (though I've spoken to an academic who remembers it happening in her childhood, so it did occur), but in a busier area with more burials taking place it might be more likely? Or perhaps it was more likely when "the authorities"(I'll let you decide what that nebulous body includes!) were involved? My father's sister died aged 6 months in 1942 at the far end of the county in a hospital and, although her eldest sister registered the death, no-one knows what then happened, and I've been utterly unable to find any record of what happened to her body. I wonder if the poor lass is in a jar on a shelf somewhere. If so, I hope she's helping train pathologists (speaking as someone who's had a small hand in just that lately). Hope that helps, Adrian During some research we have found a family member born in 1906 whom we understand to be one of triplets. Only two were born alive and one was stillborn and they were born at home. We have checked birth and burial records which show the two, but we know that the other baby would not be in there. We have looked for the burial records but there is nothing that shows. I know that sometimes a stillborn baby was slipped into an adults coffin (usually female) so not causing any further burials or fees. My question is would there be any records ie at a local undertakers of this?