These include Parish registers, Civil registers of Births Marriages and Deaths from 1837 as well as the registers of Non conformist churches including the Methodist, Wesleyan and Bible Christian Churches . There are also indexes of marraiges and burials and transcripts of some parish registers that help speed up the search.
Burial registers are important to the family historian.
You may have found two people born in the same parish with the same name and either could be your ancestor. Checking the burial indexes might show that one died as an infant, so he can't be your ancestor. It was common practice to name a child after a dead sibling, sometimes adding a second christian name to differentiate between the children.