From: richard@ex-parrot.com   
      
   On 22/08/18 17:57, Graeme Wall wrote:   
   > On 22/08/2018 17:21, Richard Smith wrote:   
   >> On 22/08/18 17:07, Ron Taylor wrote:   
   >>> Rather strange. I have Harriot Lutterloh daughter of Henry and Phillis   
   >>> baptised 1 April 1773 St Giles in Fields and again April 15 St   
   >>> Marylebone - given the names etc clearly the same person.  There are no   
   >>> explanatory annotations against either entry.   
   >>>   
   >>> Any thoughts on this?   
   >>   
   >> It's not that uncommon.  Generally the first will have been a private   
   >> baptism carried out in the house very soon after birth because it was   
   >> thought likely the child might not live, and the second will have been a   
   >> public baptism or reception into church when the child was well enough   
   >> to be taken to church.   
   >>   
   >   
   > But would a private baptism be entered in church records?   
      
   Yes, they frequently are.  Sometimes they are noted as a private   
   baptism, and sometimes you have to infer it from a double baptism as you   
   have here.  I'm sure quite a few baptisms which were followed a few days   
   later by a burial of the infant were also private baptisms, but we can   
   never be certain about any specific case.   
      
   Richard   
      
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