In registers with missing years they sometimes added late baptisms when someone started recording them again, and I've seen marriages acknowledged in retrospect, but never a burial, apart from sometimes a death date on a MI. Surely a vicar couldn't say he had buried someone with a date two years later than had actually happened.

Do you think the answer could be that if the wills weren't numbered until a later year Margaret's will could have been put in the wrong section, or do you have a better solution?

Thanks.
Sue