Amount of time between a birth and christening?

[1000xlch]

Hi all

Sometimes there wer late baptisms and say 3 children all got baptised at once and all were varying ages!  Usually it was anywhere from 6 weeks to 3 months or even 1 month old when people seemed to be baptised.

Nick - I love that golden rule - it has happened to me a few times.  I have circumstantial evidence on a direct ancestor with right names and places where children were born and his wifes first name etc, but I cannot find direct evidence that he is definitely mine ancestor.  He was a mine owner near Shifnal.

John Rowley

[loo]

I have one from the 1830s with a 5-year gap, and she's Church of England.

[Rowdy Jnr]

I have one baptism in the family that took place just prior to marriage.

Anything is possible!!

[NigelG]

In our family it has been a long held tradition that babies were baptised/christened one year and one day after they were born!

More interesting baptism info at this link

http://re-xs.ucsm.ac.uk/gcsere/revision/xtianity/ch2/4/1.html

[stonechat]

In on efamily I found 4 children up to age of 13 were christened on one day, in another family which moved, the children were re-christened at the new location!

Bob

[Valda]

The IGI 'record' you have found for Wallace Nask is not a record taken from a parish register but an entry submitted by a member of the church (Mormon). It might be correct, it might not, as sometimes individual members' submissions can be inaccurate.

The entry gives the parents of Wallace Nask as George Ward Nask and Fanny Ulnar. FreeBMD has no entries for such surnames in the civil registration but it does have a marriage entry for two very similarly named individuals

COOK, Fanny Eulnar 1844 September Marriages Newington London Surrey 
NASH, George Ward 1844 September Marriages Newington London Surrey

and Fanny's death

Nash, Fanny Eulner 1879 March Deaths Barton Regis Gloucestershire

On the 1871 census there is a Wallace Nash born circa 1858 'Blackwall' Middlesex staying with his aunt and her family in West Ham Essex. One of his cousins was born in Bristol.


Regards

Valda

[~Rachel~]

Thanks for the help again. 

Valda - does that mean that they were Mormons then or just the member who submitted it was?

George Ward Nash definitely fits in - I ordered the birth certificate of Wallace's brother to be sure. Can't find Wallace's birth anywhere yet.

[Valda]

The member who submitted the entry was Mormon, but may or may not be a direct descendant, or they could just be a distant connection more through marriage. Their research could be good or pretty bad and just guess work on their part. The church does not vet the standard of entries from individual members.

Fanny Eulner Nash was 64 on her death in Gloucestershire in 1879. There is a Fanny E Nash aged 51 in Bristol (Barton Regis registration district so named in 1877 took over from the old Clifton registration district - part now of Bristol) on the 1871 census. There is a difference in age between the two, but I think they are the same person. On the 1871 census Fanny E. was a servant in a Bristol household - a monthly nurse whose status was given as married (though widows sometimes gave their status as such). Either the death registration or the 1871 census entry (details given by the householder) could be incorrect. The 1861 census entry would seem to confirm the information on her age is inaccurate on the 1871 census.

1861 census RG9 1720 folio 126
7 Cherry Lane Bristol St James  Gloucestershire   
Fanny Nash 45 London,  Head  Married Tailoress
George Nash 15  Bristol Son 
Kate Nash 6  Bristol Daughter 
Wolice Nash 3 Bristol Son 
Fredk Nash 1  Bristol Son

1851 census HO107 1953 folio 214
Ashly Road Bristol St Paul  Gloucestershire   
G Nash 40  Chew Stoke, Somerset,  Head  Married Tailor
Fanny Nash 42  Chelsea Wife  Married Tailoress
Fanny Nash 3  Worfield, Gloucestershire,  Daughter 
George Nash 5  Bristol St Paul

Again an incorrect age for Fanny on the census - she was probably nearer 32.
I cannot find George senior on either the 1861 and 1871 censuses so I would keep an open mind on when he actually died.
Chewstoke parish records are not as far as I know on the IGI.

Regards

Valda

[~Rachel~]

Cheers Valda - that helps a lot. I always get put off when ages don't mtch up but I guess they made mistakes as much as we do!