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I can quite see why they've put it up - but I suspect they will have priced many of us out of the market.

Also just off to order a bunch of wills before the 17th!

Same here. My father's maternal grandfather was an only child, who married an only child(!). Doesn't make for many matches, especially when we suspect that his father may also have been an only child! We've been looking for his (my 2g grandfather's) birth and parents for 50 years.

I've had 4 cousins contact me. One took a DNA test, and found she was adopted. The other three vanished into the woodwork when I mentioned "DNA test".  So no help there.

I have a few matches who have the fairly unusual surname in their trees, nearly all with roots in one village in Norfolk. And one friend, who looked startlingly like my father, turned up in my matches last year. He matches two others, and all three are descended from one illegitimate lady in Hackney. They match none of my other matches at all. But that is all I have after several years waiting. 

I have dozens of matches in my mother's tree. One couple have 35 matches descended from them! But my father's tree is much poorer. What with only children, and illegitimate children, it's been much more challenging.

Went and found the Richard Frederick baptism in the St Nicholas BTs. Had to do it manually, as the entry isn't indexed.

Born 18 Aug 1795, bap Sep [illegible] Richard Frederick s Thomas Davies of Paradise Street and Sarah nee Oddie his wife, married Christ Church, London

These years include the Civil War period, when many registers have few to no register entries for many years. And what there are are often the well-to-do or the clerk's own family, when you have a good look at them. It is nearly always difficult to bridge the Civil War gap. Registers frequently didn't restart straight after 1660, the country took a while to recover, and keeping records wasn't the top of their priority list. Many baptisms either didn't happen, or went unrecorded.

Culcheth seems to have been a chapelry of Winwick, and there is one entry in Winwick in 1661 for Elizabeth daughter of William of Culcheth.

I did also find, on FindMyPast, an entry on a list of marriages for 1676 for a William Bates and Margaret Rydings, labelled "Ould Withington". Unfortunately FindMyPast didn't say what the register was, nor can I find the marriage mentioned anywhere else!