Mother of Thomas DREW, 1692

[garlands]

I take your point but, in this instance, the relevant PR's for the period all appear to be complete, which would make it one heck of a coincidence if only the 'HILL' entries are missing. We now have 4 missing baptisms spread over 2 generations, so it isn't as if a 'block'  has vanished.

[NickDub]

I wish the PR records I am looking at were more than 80% complete. There'd be some chance of working out the lines of descent I'm interested in, if they were. Are there any figures for the percentage of births of babies who went unbaptised for whatever reason, do you think?

[garlands]

I don't know. All I can say is that there are no obvious gaps in the records I'm searching. However, there are more 'missing' HILL baptisms:-

Richard
Mary
Agatha
Joseph
Thomas

alll of whom are mentioned in Agatha's will, so were born before 1710.

[garlands]

Agatha left a bequest to her daughter, Anne (wife of John DREW) and also bequests to Anne's children, only one of whom seems to have been baptized:-

13 May 1688  John son of John & Anne DREW  in Bromyard

I can find no record of the baptisms of Edward and Thomas

All of these are mentioned in Agatha's will so were born before 1710.

[garlands]

Although it appears that there are no records of the baptisms of about a dozen members of the DREW and HILL families in the Bromyard area, I'm happy that the Wills of Agatha and Joseph provide the answers to my original query. I shall, therefore, mark this topic 'completed' in the next day or so.

My sincere thanks to all of you who have taken the effort to help me get Anne's roots sorted, and I hope that I haven't wasted too much of your time.

Thank you.