If the baby was ill at birth, perhaps a difficult birth, it may well have been baptised at home .
Even though Methodists many people were concerned if an” unchrisomed “ child died,Roman Catholics were very concerned about it and made sure babies were baptised ASAP .
I think even a time was allowed before the soul was thought to have left the body so that time could still be used to baptise a recently dead baby. This seems more likely to have been Roman Catholic .
A cloth,the Chrisom cloth ,later a robe , was put on the baby which it wore for about a month ,the baby was anointed with Chrism ,a holy oil.
I can remember babies having a veil over their faces at their Christenings, and my M in L bought my first baby’s Christening gown and a cape and asked did I want a veil .
The custom was dying out by 1957 ,so I said no.
There were many infant and neo natal deaths in years gone by and people wanted babies baptised quite quickly,in 1957 three weeks of age was the average .
Water was still used fo the baptism ,but the chrisom oil also after the water baptism.
Perhaps a home baptism ,it would have been a home birth, but no register filled in.
Viktoria.