Seven children, only one baptised?

[sandiep]

quite jealous of all photos my families in spite of working in a photographic business hardly ever took photos typical!
there really doesnt seem to be any baptisms unless they were non conformist and I havent access to many of those

[mrs.tenacious]

It doesn’t add up at the moment - if they were non-conformist why would they have one child baptised in a C of E church? 

I have boxes and boxes of family photos, am retiring soon and looking forward to carrying on sorting, scanning and saving  My dad was an amateur photographer- he used to do his own developing …until I came along and he had to give up the spare (dark) room for  me!

[LizzieL]

It doesn’t add up at the moment - if they were non-conformist why would they have one child baptised in a C of E church? 

Ancestors of OH had 6 children. First child (Samuel) was baptised as an infant in a Non Conformist church (1814). Then he was re-baptised in a C of E church with his next 4 siblings in 1827, he would be 13 at the time and his siblings (Rachel, Deborah, Hannah, John) were 11, 9, 7, 4 years old respectively.
The 6th child (Cornelius) was born in 1831 and was never baptised as a child. Their father died in 1834 and their mother in 1835, so they had a few years to get him baptised if they had wanted to.
Both parents had C of E baptisms and there seems to be no previous history of Non- Conformism in either family. However the father's brother (who seems to have taken in the children after their parent's death) had four children. Haven't found a baptism for any of them, but one died in infancy and had a non-Conformist burial. So may be a conversion followed by a conversion back

[mrs.tenacious]

Thanks - something for me ponder on!
I know Sarah’s granddaughter wasn’t baptised until she was about 13, I’ll have to do some more ferreting about.

[BumbleB]

It doesn’t add up at the moment - if they were non-conformist why would they have one child baptised in a C of E church? 

We do have to remember that non-conformist churches did NOT have to submit their registers.  AND it is possible that a new incumbent to the church may have "upset" the family and so they removed their affiliation from that church to another

[mrs.tenacious]

Thanks, BumbleB - I don’t know that much about non-conformists I’m afraid. Will have more time to spend on it all soon, thankfully.

[mrs.tenacious]

Thanks BumbleB, I confess I know little about non-conformists.