From: katymay771@gmail.com   
      
   On 10/10/2021 23:03, Jenny M Benson wrote:   
   > I've just come across what seems to me a rather odd entry in a Baptism   
   > Register.   
   >   
   > Mary Ann Smith was privately baptized in the parish of Broad Blunsdon,   
   > Wiltshire on 23 November 1840.  Under the usual details of parents   
   > etc. is written "Admitted Febry 26th 1841" which is not unusual,   
   > except that underneath the word "Admitted" is the word "dead".   
   >   
   > Has anyone seen this before?   
      
   According to what I can find online   
   A child was privately baptized if he/she was too weak to be baptized at   
   Sunday service. Perhaps a few weeks later the child had thrived and   
   could then be taken to the Sunday service and was fully admitted into   
   the Church.   
      
   Regards   
      
   Kate   
   Sydney, Australia   
      
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