Baptism confused!!

[LisaRobinson87]

Hi All

I'm looking into a family who i think maybe linked to mine but awaiting cert to verfy my hunch, anyway i thought i'd start looking into the family why i have some free time. I've found a baptism for one of the kids he was born 1867 but wasn't baptised till 1887! Is this unusual?

[stanmapstone]

Not unusual at all.

Stan

[wilcoxon]

I found 5 children aged from 1 - 15, all baptised on the same day.
 Luckily their birth dates were noted as well

[heatherjulie]

Hi
When did William marry? Sometimes people were baptised just before marrying.

[stanmapstone]

 You had to be baptised to receive Communion, so this is why, sometimes, people got baptised before their wedding.
The Book of Common Prayer, has this comment: "It is convenient that the new-married persons should receive the holy Communion at the time of their Marriage, or at the first opportunity after their Marriage."
Adult baptism was quite common. There has always been a service in the Book of Common Prayer for the "Baptism of Those of Riper Years"
Stan

[LisaRobinson87]

I'm not a hundred percent sure yet of a marriage.

I have him born 1867 Mile End Old Town Stepney Middlesex Parents Thomas Bowser abt 1836 Durham and mother Jane Anderson Watson 1834 also Mile End Old Town Stepney.

[LisaRobinson87]

I have this marriage for his parents his but i've tried looking for his farther's farther with no look