Looking for additional information on my 3rd great-grandmother Ann Leach. Some researchers report birth at Gilscott Farm, Devon,England about 1755. A search for Gilscott Farm gives no result and messages to the folks that have posted that name have not been returned. Another user reports birth Zeal Monachorum, Devon, England which seems a long distance in 1750s. Again no replies to person posting that location.
On 24 Apr 1774 she marries John Handcock in Coldridge, Devon, England. That detail is from parish records. No mention of parents. Another parish record reports an Ann Handcock buried Coldridge 19 Dec 1791 so possibly her but nothing definitive.
A search of Coldridge parish records for a Leach family in 1750s finds nothing but some records from that period are damaged.
A recent search of England & Wales, Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers, 1567-1936 found a baptism in Plymouth, Devon on 30 May 1754 to George and Ann Leach, Denomination Presbyterian.
I have found records here in Canada that records baptisms that are a central repository of members of a religious group and the actual birth and/or baptism location is elsewhere. A report to a central authority so to speak. Are the Non-Conformist and Non-Parochial Registers possibly similar.
