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Rec'd - in Church this day.
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Shirley | Report | 23 Jan 2010 15:36 |
I have been looking a some parish registers for St Mary Rotherhithe and found some ancestors of mine had a note above their bapstisms as above. Their father was a Mariner. I noticed that a lot of the others on the page had similar notes whose father's were shipwrights etc. Did the mother wait for the fathers to return from sea to have the children baptised? |
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Jill 2011 (aka Warrior Princess of Cilla!) | Report | 23 Jan 2010 15:39 |
I've come across this before when a child was privately baptised. Sometimes the vicar has added the date of birth - I've usually thought that maybe the baby was ill, baptised at home, recovered and then went to church to be officially "received" at a later date. |
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Isabel | Report | 23 Jan 2010 16:28 |
I agree with the above i also found an instant where the baby was ill? and was baptised at home in one name and received into church with another name |
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Chris in Sussex | Report | 23 Jan 2010 16:33 |
I agree with MrsGrumpy. |
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Shirley | Report | 23 Jan 2010 16:39 |
It is a possibilty. However after having another look there are a great many mariner's children baptised a year or so after the birth. |