There is also the point that hundreds of couples were employed on remote farms. If they could not attend the Registrar's Office in the nearest local town of any size after the birth of a child, often the Registrar would have had to visit the hamlet where they lived. He would have ridden over on a horse. People may have regarded Baptising the child as more important than registration, hadnt made up their minds about names, or even been too ill to attend to these matters. It raises all sorts of historical issues. I think 'Lark Rise to Candleford' helps us to understand how our forebears really lived. And how poor they were. Most interesting. Diane 10813.