On Sat, 14 Nov 2015 23:35:45 -0000, eve via <genbrit@rootsweb.com> wrote: >[...] > In some parishes, the 1653 register was destroyed or the pages torn out >in 1660. Sometimes there are group entries from one family at a time - for >those people able to keep familiy bibles[...] Example of a small group entry: My ancestral line in Congleton did have a family bible, held by the senior line, who moved from Congleton until it was destroyed in a house fire in the late 20C. Entries of interest to a junior line were copied in the middle of the 19C, and that transcription (or at least photocopies) still exists. In the appropriate parish register, after the year completed 24 March 1668 the details of the births (nor baptisms) are given on the last half page (probably available because the change to a new volume happened at a New Year) of the girl born 1657 and the boy born 1659. The entries are clearly transcriptions of the entries in the bible (including time as well as date of birth) apart from describing the 1659 boy as "son of" rather than "second son of".