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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: wellmichelle on Tuesday 28 September 10 14:34 BST (UK)
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How usual would it have been in 1872 for an adult to have been christened at the age of 20. My great-great-great-grandmother Mary Ann Brandon, was unmarried when she gave birth to a daughter in September 1872, but earlier that year, in February, Mary Ann was christened. I am guessing it was because her parents had discovered at that stage that she was pregnant.
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Adult baptism was quite common. There has always been a service in the Book of Common Prayer for the "Baptism of Those of Riper Years"
Stan
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I have an ancestor who was baptised aged 20. He married 3 years later in 1854.
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Good lord
My grandparents got Baptised well over 60!!!
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A couple of my rellies got baptised just before they got married, I always wondered whether they had to be baptised before they could get married in a Church
T
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The Book of Common Prayer has this comment:
"It is convenient that the new-married persons should receive the holy Communion at the time of their Marriage, or at the first opportunity after their Marriage." You had to be baptised to receive Communion.
Stan
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Mine must have done it to be fashionable then!
Repenting their sins no doubt..................................................
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My gt x 3 grandmother Hannah Matthews was baptised the same day as her son (gt x 2 grandfather) Emmets. No idea why it was done then, she'd already been married and had an older son, baptised 2 years previously.