AMROTH

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 some ancestors will always be "unknowable" - so that my achievement is slightly better. However, as I had only added about 20 ancestors in the previous year the chances of getting 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. It should be borne in mind that the sample is from a very restricted area - essentially the eastern foothills of Dartmoor and that elsewhere the picture could have been very different.

WEDDINGS & BAPTISMS
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.
The Baptisms are fairly evenly distributed - though lower in the summer months.