At last - no thanks to the parish clerk or vicar

[Nell]

My ex has a large family of 13 or so children, surname Robins. They were sometimes baptised singly, sometimes with similar-aged cousins and sometimes in batches when a new baby arrived.

There were just 2 I couldn't find records for, despite scrolling through pages and pages of microfilm. The church, St Leonards Shoreditch had pages for each DAY (whereas tiny village in Norfolk comfortably got all their baptisms for a century in just a few pages). It was only when it became easier to search online - and thanks to a blanket search for children born of a mother called Priscilla (which narrowed things down) I found one called Robbins and one under Robinson, which I'd completely missed when going through surnames on film. In such a populous area with so many parishoners I could see how mistakes could be made.