Does anyone know what happened to the Kirkby Malzeard PRs for the years prior to 1653? Are they just lost or were they recorded somewhere else, like Patley Bridge? I am searching for a Marmaduke Horseman (Quaker) who went to New Jersey in 1679 with a family (dau Susannah b. abt 1665 - m. 1686 in NJ) and I think that he may have been from Kirkby Malzeard. I find 2 Marmaduke Horsemans in the 1672 Hearth Tax rolls living in Stonebeck Down, which is in Kirkby Malzeard parish. There are no other Marmaduke Horsemans in the Hearth Tax rolls in West YKS in 1672. There should be a marriage and birth of children in England. I have looked at the Kirkby Malzeard PR transcripts and do not find the family. Now, I have not looked at the original registers, so I do not know what they look like or whether there are huge gaps. Has anyone seen the actual registers? Of course, part of the problem may be the Interregnum but I many events would have been prior to that, including Marmaduke's birth. Interestingly, there is a Marmaduke Horseman who was hung at York Castle in 1670 for murdering a gamekeeper. One of the Marmaduke Horseman Stonebeck Down hearths was "empty" in 1672. Perhaps the murder Marmaduke? By the way, the IGI gives a marriage for the Quaker Marmaduke Horseman in 1634 in Keighley. The Keighley PR entry from the transcript gives no more information than the date of the marriage and name of the parties. The date and location seem wrong to me for this Marmaduke Horseman. There are also several Marmaduke Horsemans in the baptisms at Ripon in the 1620s and 30s who could be the right one, but who knows? I have not found a will that clears that up for me. Merry Christmas to All, Janet Sugden Thomas, Stamford CT