INTERESTING THINGS

From the mass of details I thought it might be interesting to look at some more general analyses - hence the following tables.  The details also reveal curiosities: "John Short - baptised 29/2/1781" caught my eye as that year was certainly not a leap year.  However, this is from an IGI record so it is possible that it is a transcription error.

Of all the hundreds of people on this site only a small number are my direct ancestors - by February 2nd 2006 these amounted to just 183 individuals - slightly over 2% of all my ancestors back to my great great great great great great great great great great grandparents (yes that's 10 "greats").  Because of illegitimate births ome ancestors will always be "unknowable" - so the my achievement is slightly better.  However, as I have only added about 20 ancestors in the last year the chances of gertting to 100% are slim.

Christian Names

This is an analysis of most of the Wills baptisms included on this site.  Throughout the 300 years that these covered over a quarter of all the girls were christened Mary - and almost the same proportion of boys were christened John.

WEDDINGS

Exactly why so many weddings took place in January (certainly up to 1750) is something of a mystery and the fairly even spread throughout the year was also something I did not really expect.

BAPTISMS