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Came across an interesting entry earlier today. It consisted of a completely blank line to which the vicar had added "Left church before giving name".
I bet someone is looking for this baptism!
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He or she was probably too young to talk :)
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Was it in 1764 in a rural Suffolk parish? :D Could be my ancestor Richard Titshall. :D :D
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Came across an interesting entry earlier today. It consisted of a completely blank line to which the vicar had added "Left church before giving name".
Oh, I've found those before (one, I think, is my 2xgreat uncle, as all his brothers and sisters had been baptised in that particular church). In this case it seemed to be one of a number of baptisms on the same day, all of which had no names or other details.
Cati
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Was it in 1764 in a rural Suffolk parish? :D Could be my ancestor Richard Titshall. :D :D
No! It was someone called - " " - from Oldham in the 1800s.
Not that I'm religiously inclined but, if your name doesn't appear in the register, does it count?
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I have the christening of my 3xgt aunt where the minister kindly forgot to record the name and whether the child was female or male in 1849 Also family Search has indexed her as male ??
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The parish register for my gran's baptism gives her name as Seth, which was her father's name. No wonder it took me so long to find her baptism. I know it's her because I knew her date of birth and, from the siblings born either side of her, I knew which records to look at. She was definitely female, she had 10 children ::) and lived with us until her death when I was 8.
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Came across an interesting entry earlier today. It consisted of a completely blank line to which the vicar had added "Left church before giving name".
I bet someone is looking for this baptism!
Probably the same person whose burial is recorded as "body found in the river" , of which I saw many when looking through some London Dockland parishes once.
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Was it in 1764 in a rural Suffolk parish? :D Could be my ancestor Richard Titshall. :D :D
No! It was someone called - " " - from Oldham in the 1800s.
Not that I'm religiously inclined but, if your name doesn't appear in the register, does it count?
God knows.
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There's a Scottish one which was something like "baptised child of Whatsisname".