Thank you for your reply Sally. However the one you have found couldn't have been a Richard I was looking into. The individual I was looking into had been baptised in 1724 (and certainly not simply a very late baptism) and if the burial had been him, I would have expected the Vicar to have noted him as being a child, as he did in other cases in his Register. Although the word clearly isn't "child", I just wondered what it might have indicated. Out of interest I will see if I can find anything about the one you found some 120 or so years later in 1848, as I know of a Richard in the area about that time (my 2x gg father), but he wasn't born until 1834 so too young to be bankrupt when he was only 14 and, in any event, as far as I am aware, he never followed the trade of being a Tanner, at any time.

Thanks again, David

Thanks again for looking into my query