Two baptisms

[Bedells]

Dinah Drayton.

1. 
First name(s)   Dinah
Last name   Drayton
Sex   Female
Birth year   -
Baptism year   1816
Baptism date   05 May 1816
Place   Cadney
Father's first name(s)   -
Mother's first name(s)   Elizabeth
County   Lincolnshire

Note: “illegitimate”


2.
First name(s)   Diana
Last name   Drayton
Sex   Female
Birth year   -
Baptism year   1816
Baptism date   22 Oct 1816
Place   North Kelsey
Father's first name(s)   -
Mother's first name(s)   Elizabeth
County   Lincolnshire
Country   England

Note: “baseborn”

[BumbleB]

From the parish register images, available on FindMyPast:

North Kelsey - Elizabeth is of NK - Servant girl

Cadney - Elizabeth is of C - female servant

[Bedells]

From the parish register images, available on FindMyPast:

North Kelsey - Elizabeth is of NK - Servant girl

Cadney - Elizabeth is of C - female servant

The distance is 4 miles via road and around half that should you walk as the crow flies. It seems too much of a coincidence that they are both servants with the same name and they have illegitimate daughters with very similar names

[BillyF]

It`s entirely possible that they " are" 2 different baptisms.

I have 2 at Grasby where  in each family, "all" the mother`s and father`s names, plus the child`s name are the same.

[emeltom]

If it is just one Elizabeth Drayton with one baby, why baptise the child with two different but similar names, 6 months apart and in two different, yet fairly close, places?

Emeltom

[Bedells]

If it is just one Elizabeth Drayton with one baby, why baptise the child with two different but similar names, 6 months apart and in two different, yet fairly close, places?

Emeltom

This is a good question and one that I have a possible theory:
Elizabeth herself had a sister called Diana. Did she want to name her illegitimate daughter that but was forced/pressured to name her otherwise, then later down the line went to a different church and baptised her with the planned name?

[BillyF]

On FreeReg there is a marriage at N.Kelsey between an Elizabeth Drayton and Richard Camae. This took place on 22nd December 1818.

It is also on LincstothePast, where it says they are " both of this parish "

[Maiden Stone]

The later baptism may have been the reception of the child into the church. The earlier date may have been a simple baptism at home or in a workhouse. Babies of single women were more likely to die.
Btw a single mother was supposed to confess her sin of fornication before she could be churched. Churching was a thanksgiving and blessing ceremony for a new mother and a welcome back to church and society after the confinement of pregnancy and childbirth.

Dinah and Diana are different names but easily confused. I have a Dinah born around that time who was occasionally Diana on records. Dinah and Diana were not common names where she lived. Were the baptisms at different churches? Spelling would depend on who wrote the name in the register. My Dinah's granddaughter was Dinah; one great-granddaughter was Diana but Diannah in baptism register (compromise or mistake?).  other great-granddaughters were Diana. 

[BillyF]

I quite agree with the difference in the names. In this particular query I have also seen it referred to as Deana.