"Ian Goddard" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected] > > BTs seem to have been sent in at the end of the year which raises an > interesting question - were they transcribed from the PRs at year end, > written up during the year at the same time as the PRs or written up at > year end from the same notes as the PRs? There can be discrepancies > between BTs & PRs. A lot of the 19th century registers I've been looking at have "copied", or a longer form of words, written in the margin once a year. I don't think we should pay too much attention as to how we think things might have been done, as it is all too likely that it varied dramatically from church to church, and vicar to vicar. Steven --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com