From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 10/01/2024 08:56, Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   I had the misfortune to spend part of my secondary schooling at a   
   Catholic school, run by Irish priests. At about the age of 15 we were   
   taught the correct form of words for a baptism in case we came across an   
   emergency situation. I hasten to add, I've never actually performed one.   
      
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