From: charlesellson@btinternet.com   
      
   On Wed, 1 Oct 2025 08:56:17 +0100, "J. P. Gilliver"    
   wrote:   
      
   >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?)   
   >   
   IMU he had no choice but to marry them if they were parishioners but   
   that didn't stop some making up their own rules as still seems to   
   happen.   
      
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