David The key with Ancestry is to look at the Source Citation on the right hand side The set for 1794-1813 reads London Metropolitan Archives, General Lying-In Hospital, York Road, Lambeth, Register of baptisms Jan 1794 - Dec 1813, P85/MRY1, Item 378 Whilst the set of images for 1797-1812 reads London Metropolitan Archives, Saint Mary At Lambeth, Composite register: baptisms Oct 1797 - Dec 1812, baptisms at Stockwell Chapel Jan 1798 - Dec 1812, baptisms at the Workhouse Jan - Apr 1804, Sep - Dec 1812, burials Oct 1797 - Dec 1812, P85/MRY1, Item 349 So they are clearly two different places and I would not expect to find an entry in both. To better understand the relationship between the sets you could contact the LMA themselves - the details are on their website Regards John Hanson -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Martin Sent: 20 November 2011 07:33 To: [email protected] Subject: [SOG-UK] St Mary Lambeth I apologise if I've missed something in my years of genealogical study, but there seem to be two separate and entirely different sets of baptism records for St Mary Lambeth covering the same period. I've previously used one set at LMA on microfilm. These cover 1797-1812 and can now be accessed online at Ancestry. However, at Ancestry there is a second and separate set covering 1794-1813, and this is also available online on the new FamilySearch site. This second set has many fewer baptisms - which appear as 6-10 baptisms done on a single day every month or so - none of which appear in the bigger first set. They are recorded by George Gibson, Chaplain. On Ancestry, both sets seem to have come from LMA. It looks like, on about one day a month, a set of baptisms were done separately, and recorded separately. Why? Can anyone explain this? If this really is the same church/parish, why was there a separate (and smaller) list of parish baptisms? Thanks David M ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message