Yes that marriage information is correct. But there is no births listed for them yet their children are on the 1841 census?
Quote common, unfortunately.
Why were the births or christening not recorded? If they were where??
There can be any number of reasons why baptisms are not in the records
- maybe the parents just never got round to having them baptised
- maybe the parents didn't believe in child baptism
- maybe the session clerk forgot to write it down
- maybe the minister forgot to tell the clerk
- maybe the clerk wrote it down but made a mistake with the names
- maybe it was recorded but the register has not survived
- maybe the parents belonged to the Episcopal church, or some other denomination whose registers are lurking somewhere unknown
Estimates vary of the proportion of people whose baptisms were never recorded, or, if they were, have not survived. I have seen it suggested that 50% are missing, but I think this is on the high side for the country as a whole in the first half of the 19th century.
I have in my tree 3829 people born between 1800 and 1854, and I have failed to find the baptisms of 1081 of those so far - that's 28%, or a little more than one in four. In Lanarkshire, I have 298 missing baptisms out of 1131 people, which is 26%.
