The number of baptisms in some of the London parishes is mind-boggling. I remember counting over 30 in one day when I was doing a lookup - there was a note by the baptism I was looking for to say they had left the church without the child being baptised. I suspect they were fed up with waiting, as the child was actually baptised the following week.
A lot of my family are Londoners, so I'm always thrilled when I manage trace someone back to a small village with a good run of registers!
|