Amount of time between a birth and christening?

[Watermusic]

How about this then:

Ann Seward Baptised Wambrook 8/3/1789 aged 22?
but the only birth we think we have found for her is Wambrook 1725, if so she would have been 64.
Her parents were Edward and Ann Seward.
She married Henry Fry 28-Oct-1756, Wambrook
The first child we've found was Amy in 1769, Wambrook
and second William 30-Jun-1771, Wambrook

If she was 22 in 1789 she married at the age of -11 perhaps it is a misreading of 55?
If she was 64, she married at the age of 31 and had known children at 44 and 46 - which also seems a bit strange and 1735 would be a more reasonable birth date.

I understand that the Wambrook register is in a very poor condition. There could be records at Chardstock, Membury or Axminster as well for this couple.

Ho. Hum
Watermusic

[Dogcatcher]

I have an ancestor, Wallace Nash, who was born abt. 1858.

I found a Wallace Nask on www.familysearch.org who was christened in 1863. The place looks right, as do the names of his paretns. The only thing putting me off is that amount of time between the two dates.

The other thing to think of is, did child 1 die young and are you looking at the baptism of child 2? Quite common to use the same name again.

John

[Valda]

If that were true in this case then Fanny the mother would have been about 48 when a second Wallace was born circa 1863.

Regards

Valda