Baptism question

[stanmapstone]

The Anabaptists, like the Baptist Church today, held that Infant Baptism saw not true baptism and only those who were old enough to understand the meaning of faith and repentance should be baptised (Believers' Baptism) and therefore rejected any infant baptism, and baptised again when the person was older.
In the Baptist Church normally baptism takes place by full immersion in water as part of a public act of worship
Stan

[behindthefrogs]

In these cases you often have to examine the actual parish register entries.

When a child is baptised at home usually because it is not expected to survive it will later be brought to church and presented to the congregation.  Both of these events are often recorded in the baptism register and then later transcribed as baptisms with the vital annotations of half baptised, private baptism, brought to church etc. being lost in the transcription.

In this specific case the birth may have taken place at a house away from the parents' parish and then the child brought to church in that parish.  This would be particularly necessary at that time to establish the child's parish of settlement.

David