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I've come across several reasons for my not finding baptism records.
When I first started family history I expected to find the children's baptism was in the same church as the parents marriag. I was corrected by the local vicar which stated that marriages would be in the larger grander dioces church and baptisms would be held in the local parish church, if they still existed and rats or water hadn't destoyed them.
I once came across a school inspector's report which stated he had found one five year old pupil had not been baptised. He had immediately taken the child out of school, had her baptised and then readmitted to the parish school. Up in Scotland a vicar insisted on the bride being baptised before he would marry the couple as he didn't recognise the church where the bride had been baptised.
It was cheaper to have the child baptised by the local vicar, but without the vicar making out the details of the baptism and sending the record to the diocese.
The Catholic church will allow a child to be baptized in a local christian church if the nearest catholic church is a long distance away from where the father works. In this event the parents will make one expensive trip to the catholic church nd haver all their children baptised together.
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