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

[aghadowey]

I really ought to know how much the C of E charges for a baptism in a church now, and how it compares with a Registry Office one...
Keith

Registry Offices do not baptise children- think you mean birth registration? Births have to be registered within a certain time and there is no charge for the registration itself. It is copies of the birth certificate that have to be paid for.

Added-
https://www.churchofengland.org/weddings-baptisms-funerals/fees.aspx
I suspect the only fee regarding the baptism would be for a certificate of the event

[aghadowey]

4. How much does a Christening service cost?
The good news is that a Christening service is free. There may be costs for your family party afterwards, for gifts, or for christening robes, but the church service is free. [Occasionally parents need a certified copy of the entry in the register. In 2014 this will cost £12]

https://www.churchofengland.org/weddings-baptisms-funerals/baptism/christening-faqs.aspx

[BumbleB]

Not a multiple baptism for siblings.  However, I do have a triple baptism for children, where 3 siblings each had an offspring baptised on the same day.

[Galium]

One possible reason for not baptising children showed up in this parish register note posted here a few weeks ago:

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=702456.msg5454120#msg5454120

[Keith Sherwood]

Aghadowey,
Thanks very much for putting me right on all that - a bit of a senior moment with the baptism thing instead of birth registration!
And thanks very much for that very entertaining link to "What a Swell Party…etc." on that other thread, Galium…
Keith

[alisdair810]

Two options spring to mind, one "the great Conversion" for the whole family (which did happen), the other is access to poor relief from the church - where only believers were accepted. I am sure I saw this situation on a recent "Who do you think you are?" genealogy of the famous type TV programme, Family access to the Church poor house. Is that a possibility?

[Auntieteabag]

Thanks for the replies everyone, the idea of the cost of entertaining family and friends had not occurred to me.

The idea that they did not have them  baptised because so many died young also had not occurred, as I had assumed the opposite, that they would want to have them baptised because they died so young.

You live and learn
Thanks again
Auntieteabag


 

[healyjfch]

I have attended a multiple family baptism held on an Easter Saturday night in the 1980's
The family were joining the Roman Catholic Church.
Both parents and their 3 children were Baptised, both parents were also Confirmed.
The children has sponsors Godparents, the adults did not.
I was there to attend Mass totally unaware that this special ceremony was going to occur during Mass.

The family were not from our Parish.

A night to remember for sure.

[falcybe]

we baptised our four daughters, including twins, born between 1980 and 1985 in England on the same day in Belgium in 1988; I am English and my wife Belgian. The parish priest was from Africa and the second priest whom we invited to the ceremony and who had baptised my wife many many years before, was a Jesuit. It was a meeting of many minds in happiness.