Don't forget that central London parishes were tiny and people frequently hopped across boundaries depending upon which church they preferred at different times. In a similar situation to you I started browsing parishes in an ever increasing circle from the 'home' parish and found not only ancestors baptised or married in a nearby parish but family links which led on to other ancestors. A GG grandfather who had two children baptised in his home parish and two just down the road in the next parish - perhaps he fell out with the first vicar! A slow tortuous journey but it produced results. You need a diagram of the London parishes which is somewhere on Genuki. Barry On 27 Jul 2012, at 13:30, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:01:06 -0400 (EDT) > From: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [MDX] Rawlins (previously LMA) > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > Hello Barry, > > > I had missed the number of baptisms at the church on this date!! What a fascinating piece of information! Thank you so much for pointing this and other important information out to me. I have the marriage record for Samuel Rawlins and Mary Snell. Samuel was a widower and is listed as a laborer on the marriage record. Mary's father, THomas Snell was an "agriculturer" laborer. > > > I have also found an earlier record for a Richard Rawlins from St Luke's Old Street who was the son of a Samuell Rawlins. Lots of pieces of information, but not the links. > > > I so appreciate the your guidance. I am encouraged to work on finding more answers. > > > Regards, > > > Bev W >