I have just found what appear ro be two separate records for the baptism of James Emmott in Bingley in 1779. It actually looks as if there were two parish registers. One seems to be written more legibly than the other! Would they have kept two copies or is there another explanation that I am missing? Details for James Emmott: Birth Date: 5 Aug 1779 (one of the records has this transcribed as 1778) Baptism Date: 22 Aug 1779 Parish: Bingley Father's Name: James Emmott** I found the records on Ancestry and the citation is as follows (images 2 and 17). Source Citation: West Yorkshire Archive Service; Wakefield, Yorkshire, England; *Yorkshire Parish Records*; Old Reference Number: *5D94/1/7/3*; . *Source Information:* Ancestry.com. *West Yorkshire, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1512-1812* [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: *Yorkshire Parish Records*. Leeds, England: West Yorkshire Archive Service. Thanks Malcolm Emmett