From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 13/10/2021 07:10, Kate Spencer wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Presumably if the child died in the meantime it was an acknowledgement   
   that the child was baptised and could go to heaven rather than limbo.   
      
      
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