From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On 2025/10/1 1:26:32, Charles Ellson wrote:   
   > On Sun, 28 Sep 2025 18:25:12 +0100, Peter Johnson   
   >  wrote:   
      
   []   
      
   >> I've seen baptism that were several years after birth.   
   >>   
   > Yes, that tended to get the birth date mentioned. Not always as is   
      
   Sometimes only the year, presumably because nobody could remember the date.   
      
   > evident when the children have been batched up and oviously weren't a   
      
   Yes, I've got at least one of those (I think it was after moving from   
   Norfolk to Northumberland).   
      
   > recent multiple birth. Marriage was also sometimes a trigger for   
   > getting baptised.   
      
   Indeed. (Possibly because the vicar wouldn't marry them otherwise - or   
   even couldn't?)   
      
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