No, the reverse is true. The Rose's Act of 1812, more properly called an " Act for the better regulating and preserving Parish and other Registers of Birth, Baptisms, Marriages, and Burials, in England" required ruled registers for baptisms and burials to be introduced in 1813 and the burial registers had a column for age at death to be recorded. In my experience this column was always completed, although some of the ages were only approximate. The pre-1813 registers for baptisms and burials were completed on blank ages and it was up to the vicar to decide just how much information to include for each entry and some merely recorded the date of burial and the name of the deceased. Ruled registers for marriages were introduced in 1754 following Lord Hardwicke's Marriage Act. Best wishes, Marion Woolgar Bognor Regis, West Sussex