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Looking for the baptism of Anne Emmets, my great x 4 grandmother.

I found 2 couples surname Emmets, having children baptised in Whichford, Warwickshire, one called Valentine & Anne and the other Richard & Alice.
Neither couple had a daughter called Anne recorded.

I think Richard & Alice are marginally more likely as on Anne's wedding to Richard Matthews the witnesses were Richard Emmets [possible father or brother] and Lawrence Jones. Jones is Alice's maiden name.

Another tree on Ancestry has an Anne Emmets, parents Richard & Alishe [sic] baptised 1753 in St Lawrence, Chobham, Surrey. Although the names fit and the date is likely, I can't see why they would be so far from home.

An alternative theory of mine is that Richard & Alice had two daughters, recorded as Alice. One of them born 1754 and the other baptised Nov 1756. I can't find a burial for the first Alice and am wondering is Alice II was actually Anne and misrecorded under her mother's first name.

Any comments welcome.

The Chobham family are indigenous, with quite a few children baptised to Richard and Alisha.

I have certainly seen misrecordings in registers - but it's rare that we can prove it.

Thanks Phoenix.

My own instinct is that Chobham is a red herring and it seems likely (though as you say, unprovable) that Alice II is really Anne.