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An alteration to a Parish Register
« on: Wednesday 21 October 15 08:53 BST (UK) »
I would appreciate some help deciphering this entry in the "By whom, the ceremony was performed" column for baptisms in the Barrowden, Rutland in 1826. The entries above and below are signed by Rich(ar)d Carey, the Rector of the Parish, as are all the other entries in the register) but his name is crossed out on this line.   

My best guess is the above the crossing out is a name ?John Parker - and below it says Official something.

Many thanks

Alan
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Re: An alteration to a Parish Register
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 21 October 15 08:58 BST (UK) »
I would say the name is Wm Parker.  i.e. William

Not sure what the word after official is though!
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: An alteration to a Parish Register
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 21 October 15 08:58 BST (UK) »
Maybe it is:

Officiating Minister
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: An alteration to a Parish Register
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 21 October 15 11:32 BST (UK) »
Doesn't alter the meaning, but I think it's "officiant minister". Which would mean that although William Parker[?] performed the ceremony, his own parish is elsewhere.  If this is the only place his name appears in the register, it could indicate that he is a family member of the child baptised.
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Re: An alteration to a Parish Register
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 21 October 15 11:49 BST (UK) »
Many thanks for the thoughts.

Just to add a little background here (which may or may not be relevant), the family were baptists who attended Barrowden Baptist Chapel. Whilst I understand that they performed marriages, I gather that baptisms were carried out (at least in this time sale) at the Parish Church.

I don't have a William Parker in the family tree. As Officiant Minister, could he have been the Baptist Minister?

Alan
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Re: An alteration to a Parish Register
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 21 October 15 12:22 BST (UK) »
As I understand it, the practices of the Baptist Church include  adult baptism, undertaken by the choice of the individual, and taking the form of complete immersion. Baptising infants as the CofE does goes against their belief that the person baptised should  understand what it means and have chosen it for themselves.  Whatever was being recorded in the register, I don't think that a Baptist minister would have been performing a CofE type baptism of a baby or a young child.
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Re: An alteration to a Parish Register
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 21 October 15 14:19 BST (UK) »
I agree that it is unlikely a Baptist Minister would be officiating at a C of E christening service. But not impossible.

For some reason, the family (whom you say normally attended the Baptist Church) chose to have a Cof E christening for their baby.  Maybe Rev Carey was unwell and Wm Parker stood in from a neighbouring parish. Or maybe there was a close relationship between the churches in the area and maybe Wm Parker was the Baptist Minister and he was happy to officiate. MAybe the person being baptised was not an infant, but a person old enough to make their own decision about faith, but for some reason was not using their own church, the Baptist Church - perhaps it was undergoing repair or something.
MAybe we shall never know!
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

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Re: An alteration to a Parish Register
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 21 October 15 17:03 BST (UK) »
According to the Clergy Database (http://theclergydatabase.org.uk/), in 1822 a William Barker was Rector of South Luffenham, Rutland - and this is the next door parish to Barrowden.

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Re: An alteration to a Parish Register
« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 21 October 15 17:06 BST (UK) »
Many thanks all - that would answer the question in total

Alan
Leicester / Northampton: Craxford,  Claypole, Pridmore, Pollard, Tansley, Crane, Tilley
Derby: Naylor, Ball, Haywood
Buckinghamshire: Cook
London: Craxford, Lane Crauford
Tyneside: Nessworthy, Simpson
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You will understand this when I tell you that I can trace my ancestry back to a protoplasmal primordial atomic globule."
  -  WS Gilbert (The Mikado)