On 01/10/2013 23:20, PMR wrote: > Is he likely to have been an adult at this time, or would a > child be allowed to stand as Godfather? I have marriage information for > several PERIGOE (however spelt!) men in the right area of Sussex around the > right time. I may be able to eliminate one or two if Robert was older than, > say, 10 in 1568. Ten might be a child to us today but not necessarily then. If he was considered old enough to have understood what his role as a godfather involved he could have been. I would have expected godparents to have been older but I'm not aware of any hard and fast rule. Someone may know otherwise. One of my son's godparents was 12 when he was baptised and both are considerably younger than your man. -- Connie http://oursalmons.wordpress.com/