Tag should be used to discuss the religious (principally christian) tradition of baptizing; protocol about the act, procedures, recording, finding and interpreting records about the act, etc.
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Strategy for distinguishing between two possible baptisms, and thus people, parents, etc
My partner has an ancestor, Peggy Crossley, probably born around 1750, who married Henry Rawlinson in Burnley, Lancaster (source) in October 1767.
I have two candidate baptismal records that seem ...
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Why was Flossie baptised twice?
On 6 September 1903, Flossy Maud Mary Ann Mogg was baptised in Stalbridge Parish Church, Dorset England. Her birth date was given as 10 December 1897, and her parents as Walter Mogg (Farmer) and his ...
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What does “privately baptised” mean in a Welsh parish register of 1799?
The parish register for St. Dogwells, Pembrokeshire has the following entry for 1799:
There is no burial record in this or an adjacent parish church in Wales for an infant John James between 1799 ...
