Caroline Bradford wrote: > Nevertheless, the number of registrations actually went down in 1875 which > may well indicate that the old system was more efficient than the new one. Curious but I'm not surprised. Do you know if the registrations stayed lower after 1875 or was it just a result of not all parents realising they had to register their children or merely being slow to do so thus not doing so in order to avoid a penalty? -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Ashcott, Shapwick, Greinton and Clutton, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk