I would like to thank everybody who replied to my posting re parish registers etc., A lot of interesting and thought-provoking stuff. In the past the mother didn't normally attend the baptism - although I would have, being up and about a few hours after my babies were born " Good Peasant Blood.... " - but then mother's had some time off in bed to recuperate, so the father - and the parish priest were in charge of the naming, and I would lay any money that some names given and officially recorded were changed later when the mother was back in charge! And remembering the attitude of the parish priest in past times, I bet a fair few names were at the priest's dictat! I remember when I was a child, our priest wouldn't baptise a neighbour's child as " Hazel " - " I am not going to name a Catholic child after a nut!! " So the little one had to be Mary Hazel, I wonder how often similar things happened? But I had forgotten completely the Old Age Pension. My great grandmother suddenly put on a good few years in the 1911 census. I was puzzled, but now it makes a lot more sense. Mary