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Carol, You have been unbelievably helpful. The clue was the spelling of Taberrer as Taberah. I have thought of a few alternative spellings throughout the years but never this one. I found Lydia Taberah on Familysearch, baptised to John Taberah and his wife, Sarah, at St Marys, Leicester, in 1799. You have just given my brick wall an almighty kick. Thank you.

I have drawn a complete blank on the Tabberrer family. Lydia Tabberrer married John Pole at Radford St Peters in 1829. I would be very grateful for any information about this marriage e.g. were there any recorded witnesses. Also a James Tabberrer was buried at St Peter, age 3 in 1817. Any information about him or any other Tabberer baptism, marriage or burial at any time in Radford would be most appreciated.

Our ancestors were Baptists in Keysoe and Riseley. Pastor William Wakefield of Cranfield Baptist Church married Elizabeth Dickins, age 20 at Keysoe Parish Church in 1773. With no baptisms recorded in Parish Records for reasons of faith how on earth can you, with any certainty be sure whether William Wakefield was the son of Robert Wakefield, Dissenter, also a member of Keysoe Brook End Church or that Elizabeth was the daughter of Stephen Dickins, member of Keysoe Brook End Church, whose son William Dickins, as recorded in the Church Book, was the Pastor there for thirty two years until his death in 1798, age 57. On the one hand it was a very small Church with small membership, all these names are recorded in the Church Book and marriages in the Parish Register. If Parish Marriage Records are to be believed there are no other child bearing families with those names around in Keysoe at the time. Elizabeth Dickins is recorded as being accepted into the Church in 1767. When does enough become enough? When researching Baptists does the lack of Parish recording of Baptisms mean that no circumstantial evidence is ever good enough and does my family research stop here. I would appreciate the thoughts of other researchers.

I found this at the bottom of a box of glass and ceramics I bought at auction. 1920's do you think? I often wonder who it was who arrived home to an absent partner and a supper of sprouts - and were they even warm!