Most baptisms at Much Hadham from Feb 1592 until Dec 1598 went unrecorded. 'Fortunately, this neglect costs us only one baptism,--that of Damaris Sanford.'
'Damaris Sanford, sister of Zachary, and youngest child of Thomas and Mary Sanford, died unmarried when about twenty-two or twenty-three years old, shortly before her mother. Her burial was not recorded at Much Hadham. She made a will, however, implying that she was of that parish; so, probably, she was buried there.' Her nuncupative will was probated 13 March 1615-16 and the court record indicates she died "about November last past".
