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Topic: 'Adult' Baptisms (Read 838 times)
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stanmapstone
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As he died shortly afterwards he was also making sure that he would be buried in consecrated gound. 
Before 1880 no body could be buried in consecrated ground except with the service of the Church, which the incumbent of the parish or a person authorized by him was bound to perform; but the canons and prayer-book refused the use of the office for excommunicated persons, for some grievous and notorious crime, and no person able to testify of his repentance, unbaptised persons, and persons against whom a verdict of felo de se had been found.
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behindthefrogs
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The first Baptist Church in England was founded in 1612. Anyone who belonged to the Baptist Denomination would not have been baptised as a child. Even in the times when attendance at the local Anglican Church was almost compulsory, marriage was the main ceremony which took place in the Anglican Church as it established settlement. Non-conformists would in those days attend the Anglican Church in the morning and their own meeting at some other time of the day.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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stanmapstone
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It could have been a Hypothetical baptism (Ch. of Eng.), baptism administered to persons in respect to whom it is doubtful whether they have or have not been baptized before.
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Aulus
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I've been working my way through some non-conformist registers from Darwen in Lancashire. In the late 1700s/early 1800s it seems to have been fairly common for whole families to be baptised at once, parents and children.
Interestingly, some I've found being baptised in more than one church/chapel, so presumably they went round the various chapels to see which they liked best (or whose sermons they disliked least!), and the vicars (or whatever the non-conformist equivalents are called) persuaded them that they needed to be baptised into his denomination, whether or not they'd already been baptised.
I think William Woodruff's Road to Nab End describes how in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, his family swapped denominations a number of times - even between CofE and RC.
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Lancashire: Stevenson, Wild, Holden, Jepson Worcs/Staffs: Steventon, Smith East London & Suffolk: Guest, Scrutton East London: Palfreman (prev Tyneside), Bissell, Collis, Dearlove, Ettridge Herts: Camac, Collis, Mason, Dorrington, Siggens Marylebone & Sussex: Cole London & Huntingdonshire: Freeman Bowland: Marsden, Noble Shropshire: Guest Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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behindthefrogs
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Most churches recognise each other's baptisms which is one of the reasons for the CofE hypothetical baptism which is use when it is not certain whther a baptism has been properly carried out.
An exception seems to be the Roman Catholics who insist on doing it again.
Some baptist churches also do not recognise a child baptism at all and so will carry out an adult baptism.
This doesn't of course mean that some families won't be "done" more than once
Going back to the original subject. My parents were Baptists at the time of my birth. The result was that I was baptised as an adult but not in a Baptist Church.
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Living in Berkshire. From Northampton & Milton Keynes DETAILS OF THE FOLLOWING NAMES ARE IN SURNAME INTERESTS, LINK AT FOOT OF PAGE Wilson, Higgs, Buswell, PARCELL, Matthews, TAMKIN, Seckington, Pates, Coupland, Webb, Arthur, MAYNARD, Caves, Norman, Winch, Culverhouse, Drakeley. Johnson, Routledge, SHIRT, SAICH, Mills, SAUNDERS, EDLIN, Perry, Vickers, Pakeman, Griffiths, Marston, Turner, Child, Sheen, Gray, Woolhouse Census Info is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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DudleyWinchurch
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Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Roman Catholics don't/should not insist on "doing it again" if a valid baptism has been performed before.
However, if there is any doubt as to whether a person was (validly) baptised there is a special form of wording used and the baptism is usually noted as "conditional" (or "sub con.") in the register.
This may happen if someone cannot remember whether they were ever baptised (but possibly/probably was) or if a child has been baptised by the parents in an emergency at home but it would not normally apply if the baptism were done by someone trained in catechesis say, who would be expected to know and use the correct form, maybe a nun or a teacher and should not apply in the case of someone with a baptism from another church.
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McDonough, Oliver, McLoughlin, Cuthbert, Quirk, O'Malley (Ireland)
Dudley, Winchurch, Wolverson, Brookes (Black Country)
Concannon, Moore, Markowski (Markesky), Mottram, Lawton (Black Country)
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stanmapstone
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This is the present policy of the Church of England. If you are a Christian from another denomination and feel drawn towards joining the Church of England, the way this is done will depend partly on your present denomination. If you have been baptised, and confirmed by a bishop, in another denomination then, after a period of preparation, you will be received into the Church of England, probably by a bishop during a confirmation service. If you have not been confirmed, or even baptised, then you will be prepared for this along with other candidates.
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moonraker 1937
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Tony I have just come across your Adult Baptisms.
My late wife had to be baptised before we could Marry. Her father would not have her baptised, as he was disappointed that being the 1st born, she was a girl.
David
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I always understood that religion formed a major part in folks' lives and everyone would regularly attend church and, presumably, be baptised as an infant. 