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Offline issi

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baptised twice in the same quarter? help!
« on: Thursday 16 May 24 00:57 BST (UK) »
Hi,
I was looking for the baptism of Jane Hannah Fish, born approx. 1846. On searching I've found her being baptised on 6.12.1846 (see near the bottom of the image). On looking at the image of the page however, I find her listed at the top of the page as also being baptised 22.11.1846. Anyone got any suggestions of what was happening, please? It seems a bit unlikely to have two people with such identical facts.
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Re: baptised twice in the same quarter? help!
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 16 May 24 01:06 BST (UK) »
I am not able to see the pages clearly enough, but it is possible one baptism was a private one, and the other a church baptism.
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Re: baptised twice in the same quarter? help!
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 16 May 24 07:46 BST (UK) »
I would agree that the November baptism was a private baptism and then the December entry was the church baptism. 
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Re: baptised twice in the same quarter? help!
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 16 May 24 08:02 BST (UK) »
One possible reason that has been suggested on genealogy forums when similar questions have appeared in the past, was that a private baptism may have taken place if the child wasn't expected to survive, and then the public one if it did. Possibly done as a conditional baptism.

The only slight difference in your two entries is the father being described as a Seaman in the first and Mariner in the second, but otherwise it certainly seems to be the same family group.
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Re: baptised twice in the same quarter? help!
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 16 May 24 09:19 BST (UK) »
There's a baptism marked "PB" recorded Sept 1845 - which pre dates the Minister that baptised Jane Hannah taking office.
Checked baptisms up to Dec 1849 and no "PBs" recorded in the register with that officiating minister still in office - unusual.

"PBs" and how they were recorded vary with ministers and also the recording of any subsequent "receiving" - which was not a baptism.
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