From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/9/28 18:25:12, Peter Johnson wrote:   
   > On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 01:17:56 +0100, Charles Ellson   
   >  wrote:   
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   >>>   
   >> There was more emphasis on the baptism date with some never knowing   
   >> their actual birthday. Before 1837 there were no birth registrations   
   >> required in England and Wales with birth dates tending only to be   
   >> recorded in non-conformist registers.   
   >   
   > I've seen baptism that were several years after birth.   
      
   Oh, definitely; I've got some who weren't baptised until they moved to a   
   different area (Norfolk to Northumberland); some people (none of mine so   
   far) who weren't religious, got baptised just before marriage; some even   
   had deathbed conversions.   
      
   All of which supports my forlorn wish that transcribers wouldn't fill in   
   the baptism year (and place) as the birth one(s)!   
      
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