Can I run something by you?

[Nell]

Looking for the baptism of Anne Emmets, my great x 4 grandmother.

I found 2 couples surname Emmets, having children baptised in Whichford, Warwickshire, one called Valentine & Anne and the other Richard & Alice.
Neither couple had a daughter called Anne recorded.

I think Richard & Alice are marginally more likely as on Anne's wedding to Richard Matthews the witnesses were Richard Emmets [possible father or brother] and Lawrence Jones. Jones is Alice's maiden name.

Another tree on Ancestry has an Anne Emmets, parents Richard & Alishe [sic] baptised 1753 in St Lawrence, Chobham, Surrey. Although the names fit and the date is likely, I can't see why they would be so far from home.

An alternative theory of mine is that Richard & Alice had two daughters, recorded as Alice. One of them born 1754 and the other baptised Nov 1756. I can't find a burial for the first Alice and am wondering is Alice II was actually Anne and misrecorded under her mother's first name.

Any comments welcome.

[Phoenix]

The Chobham family are indigenous, with quite a few children baptised to Richard and Alisha.

I have certainly seen misrecordings in registers - but it's rare that we can prove it.

[Nell]

Thanks Phoenix.

My own instinct is that Chobham is a red herring and it seems likely (though as you say, unprovable) that Alice II is really Anne.