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Topic: How long after birth were babies baptised? (Read 960 times)
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stonechat
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Can be quick but you do see ome exceptions
Bob
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Berlin-Bob
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Hi LC,
if you look up Baptism in the RootsChat Lexicon you will see several topics about it, including discussions on requirements for baptism, half-baptism, adult, multiple and private baptisms.
That should give you a lot to think about, on ages at baptism 
Bob
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Necromancer
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longest gap I've seen is 1652 - 1663 (interregnum etc)
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Musicman
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Digressing slightly (me digress – never!) from your actual enquiry – but still about baptisms of years ago. I’m currently transcribing local baptismal registers for Non-Conformist Churches around the 1850s, for my local Records Office.
Something I’ve found interesting are that some families had a “whole batch” done – 3 or 4 children baptised at one go – ages ranging up to about 8 years old. The oldest baptism that I’ve seen recorded in this book was for a 16-year-old!
I mentioned this to one of the staff and she told me that the oldest baptism she’d come across was someone in their 30s! She was carrying out some work for a family, and couldn’t find the baptism of one of the boys. She explored all “avenues” she could think of, but to no avail. She was later doing research about the later years of the same family – and that’s when she discovered the “baptism” she had been looking for – which was carried out when the “baby” was in his thirties!
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Gensleuth
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I had 3 siblings way back in my tree all baptised on the same day [ triplets was my first thought]
But no, they were aged 3 months,2 years and 5.
My mother was baptised when she was 6. I was 4 when I was dunked. I dont know why it was left till later
Everybody else seems to be 'conventional'
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Siamese Girl
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There may also be a problem with private baptisms and later public presentations in church. If a baby was baptised privately - ie perhaps it was sickly, the parents were supposed to have it publically baptised in church afterwards, but sometimes didn't bother.
Reading the diaries of Parson James Woodforde, quite often he privately baptised a child but there is no record of that baptism in the PRs.
Carole
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