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Title: Baptism record
Post by: amethyst0_9 on Tuesday 22 October 24 13:02 BST (UK)
Hi
Just wondering if its possible to get a full baptism certificate online?

The person Im looking at is

Name   Wilhelmina Kendricka Lucas Smart
Baptism Date   23 Aug 1876
Baptism Place   Kirkdale, St Paul, Lancashire, England
Mother   Ann Smart

I have the reference from my online tree, it looks like the extract is from North Shore, Lancashire?

Thanking you in advance.
Regards
Janice



Thank you in advance
Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 22 October 24 13:17 BST (UK)
Here’s the link to it from Ancestry.  If you have a sub you can print it.  It shows “father not known”

www.rootschat.com/links/01tgs/

Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 22 October 24 13:22 BST (UK)
GRO online has her middle name as Hendricka??  Also - back in 2020 somebody notified a transcription amendment on Ancestry to Hendricka
Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: amethyst0_9 on Tuesday 22 October 24 13:32 BST (UK)
Hi, Thank you.   The transcription change was most probably me.   I was wondering if a full baptism certificate would show anymore information?
Regards
Janice
Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: CaroleW on Tuesday 22 October 24 13:33 BST (UK)
The link I posted is the full baptism record
Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: amethyst0_9 on Tuesday 22 October 24 13:46 BST (UK)
Hi Carol

I hadn't realised that, thank you for taking the time to help.

Regards

Janice
Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: Blue70 on Wednesday 23 October 24 10:50 BST (UK)
Family Search also have this as a free download:-

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-896J-Q9WW-Y?cat=673983


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Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: amethyst0_9 on Wednesday 23 October 24 12:59 BST (UK)
Hi,

Thank you, that's the same as the one on Ancestry.

Thank you for taking the time to look.

Regards
Janice
Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: Blue70 on Wednesday 23 October 24 13:27 BST (UK)
The baptism record is an entry in the church baptism register. The information in the register entry is all that is recorded. The church register says 'North Shore, Lancashire', the location of the church was Kirkdale, Liverpool and the name of the church was St Paul's.

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Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: amethyst0_9 on Wednesday 23 October 24 13:49 BST (UK)
Once again, thank you for the information.   I wasn't sure if there would be a certificate of baptism showing more information i.e godparents.

Regards
Janice
Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: Blue70 on Wednesday 23 October 24 14:07 BST (UK)
RC baptisms usually have godparents' names but I don't think the C of E included godparents' names until the 20th century. That information wasn't recorded so is lost to us. I think the earliest C of E baptism I have with godparents' names on is from 1933 so they likely were recorded by 1920s or 1930s.

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Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: amethyst0_9 on Wednesday 23 October 24 14:36 BST (UK)
Thank you

Regards

Janice
Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: willyam on Thursday 24 October 24 14:15 BST (UK)
Janice,

I believe that what you are hoping to find is the certificate which was given to the parents on the baptism day - which was separate from & additional to the standard entry in the church register.

I have a few such certificates relating to my wife's (Ashton-under-Lyne) family which, as you have mentioned, do contain the names of the godparents.

However, as these were individually presented to mark the happy event, I think it highly unlikely that there will be an online dataset which you will be able to source.

Willyam
Title: Re: Baptism record
Post by: amethyst0_9 on Thursday 24 October 24 20:24 BST (UK)
Hi,

Thank you for replying.

Regards

Janice