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   On 2024-01-06 17:32:00 +0000, Geoff said:   
      
   > Graeme Wall wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 06/01/2024 17:17, Geoff wrote:   
   >>> Why would someone have a private baptism in 1714?   
   >>> I am researching the Hastings family in Horning in Norfolk and have   
   >>> not seen this in any other baptism records.   
   >>   
   >> Sick infant?   
   >   
   > He went on to have 7 children!   
      
   My grandmother was baptised in 1875 by a nurse in a maternity hospital   
   because she wasn't expected to live. She was later baptised again in   
   church. She died in 1965 at the age of 89, with three surviving   
   children (a fourth lost in a submarine during the War) and eight   
   grandchildren. You don't need to be a priest to carry out a baptism,   
   and I think baptism by nurses in hospital was quite common.   
      
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