Multiple Same Family Baptisms, would EIGHT be some kind of a record...?

[Keith Sherwood]

Falcybe,
What a splendid, harmonious story!
Keith

[falcybe]

 

[Racheal Kibble]

i had a family of mine baptise 5 children in one go, they went on to baptise the next four a few weeks after the birth. They had just moved from one parish to another so perhaps it was to ensure the children could get poor relief if needed.

[Rosinish]

[Occasionally parents need a certified copy of the entry in the register. In 2014 this will cost £12]

I wonder if there is a difference in Scotland/England/Ireland/Wales regarding baptisms & cost for the register entry?

My whole family were all baptised (different times) 1961 - 1972 same R. C. Church but each birth cert. on the back/reverse had an ink stamp with Church name, the Priest wrote the date & signed his name.

I believe Churches couldn't/can't charge but did/do accept donations?

I think where families were not "well off" the Priest still had to perform the baptism without a donation?

Annie.

[HughC]

There's an entry in the Ballymena register that says (if memory serves):

"The children of Roger Casement of HarryVille were born on the following days, viz:"

It then lists no fewer than eleven names, finishing with the baptism of the twelfth.
Admittedly, it doesn't specifically state that the other eleven were baptized with her, but I like to picture them all lined at the font in order of height.
Sadly, both the youngest and her mother died within a few days. 

Of course the Mormons, and Ancestry in their wake, have transcribed all the dates as baptisms.
I don't think transcribers ever actually read what they're transcribing (see also Mareanna's recent post).

[bykerlads]

I've got two incidences of children being baptised in a "job lot".
One in 1851 where it looks as if the mother took all 6 children, some seemingly illegitimate, to a neighbouring village to be christened, shortly before the census-man was due to visit.
The other when my grtgrandparents seem to have had their brood of 12 done in two separate lots.No idea why - maybe too busy to get them done individually ?

[DavidG02]

I have 2 lots , 1 in 1850 in Wiltshire. 3 on the same day, now they were either triplets or the place of abode may have meant the family didn't get into the parish much. Abode: Melksham Forest

Another lot baptised 3 before boarding the ship to Australia. The assumption being they were concerned about arriving either in heaven or Australia as ungodly

Many reasons why people delay

[LizzieL]

My best is 5 at one go - actually OH's family.
The oldest one had been baptised previously shortly after birth in a Non conformist chapel. When the 5 children were baptised in 1827 it was in the local C of E church. Their ages ranged from 13 down to 4 years old at baptism. The parents had their 6th and last (known) child in 1831 and never had him baptised. But he got himself baptised as an adult shortly before his marriage.
I can understand the mass baptism if the parents suddenly decided to change to C of E but would have thought they would have the subsequent child baptised fairly soon.