How awkward can you be!

[avm228]

Was Billinge a chapelry rather than an parish?

If so its baptisms may have been written up twice - in Billinge's own chapelry registers but also in the registers of the parish church.

[MUMMYG]

Ah!  that maybe  the answer avm228, Im not sure I Ill have to find someone who knows about the church, good thinking thankyou.

[MUMMYG]

I went back and thoroughly checked the records on ancestry and find that the St Helens record for this double baptism WAS a Bishops Transcript, there was also a third record for Parish Records at Preston that lists it as a baptism for the Prescot District Its all or nothing in this game isnt it

Thats that one solved then.
 
Thanks again

[andrewalston]

I have come across some odd events too. One of my families had their children baptised in the Wesleyan chapel at Ormskirk, but also at the CofE up the hill "just in case".

One of my lot was baptised twice in the same church, two weeks apart. For the second event he appears to have been brought in to give a visiting clergyman "something to do".

[MUMMYG]

Oh my, and I think Ive got trouble 

[behindthefrogs]

Andrew

Are you sure that your baptisms two weeks apart weren't a home baptism of a child not expected to survive followed by the presentation of the child to the congregation two weeks later.  In these cases often both were recorded in the register.  If you can see the actual register that might give you a better idea.

[andrewalston]

The first baptism was pretty standard. At the second baptism (only one that day), the clergyman is definitely a visitor - his normal parish is given and the next baptism reverts to the normal clergyman.

Come to think of it, my eldest neice could have caused confusion too. Her eldest daughter was born in Canberra, but baptised in Lancashire at 3 months old by a friend of the family.