Great Barton Parish Registers - WALTER

[Lycia]

Hello

I wonder if anyone could look up please to see if a Christening took place for Herbert Walter in Great Barton in Suffolk in 1874?  Herbert was born there on 15/04/1874. 

Something rather odd is going on with Herbert, as he seemed to have thought he was born in 1875 and there is a London Baptism record for him for 20/06/1875.  Now I do find it hard to believe in days of high infant mortality that they would wait that long, over a year after the birth.  This leads me to suspect that an earlier Christening took place in Suffolk.  To add a further detail, the parents were married in London on 20/02/1874 and were Jesse Walter and Eliza (nee Nunn).  As you can see the dates are close together and my hunch is that Eliza may have been sent away to Suffolk to give birth to Herbert and return with 'babe in arms' at a more 'appropriate' time.   

With many thanks!

Lycia

[CaroleW]

Now I do find it hard to believe in days of high infant mortality that they would wait that long, over a year after the birth

Some baptisms took place several years after a birth so a year after is not at all unusual

By the time they married she was 7months pregnant so I doubt she would have been able to hide that fact.  As she was actually married - why would she have needed to be "sent away"