From: rontay@telus.net   
      
   On 8/22/2018 09:57, 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?   
   >   
   >   
      
   Thx. On reflection you may well be right. Birth was on 30 March, first   
   baptism 1 April so sickness and danger of death seems very possible   
      
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