Christening girls but not boys?

[danuslave]

I know the records are incomplete but I have found a family where 4 girls are christened, but 3 boys are not - even though they are mixed in with ages and living in the same place.

Is this unusual?

Linda

[hughar]

Which records - the Parish Registers or a transcript, or the IGI?  If it's the IGI then there are several unexplained instances of extracted batches containing only girls and not boys.
To be sure you need to check the actual registers.

[danuslave]

Thanks hughar.  It is the IGI so that might account for it.  It's not particularly important, just odd.

Linda

[eadaoin]

could the parents be of different religions?
In one of my lines, the girls were christened Catholic like their mother - I haven't yet found Presbyterian baptisms for the boys.

(great-gran then cheated, and the boys were later baptised Catholic, privately and conditionally). I've often wondered if great-granda knew?

eadaoin

[mosiefish]

Hi,

Someone on here or another list  (I can`t remember sorry) mentioned that on the IGI  women members transcribed the girls baptisms and men transcribe the boys.  Hence there were often more girls transcribed than boys. 

I did find the following on the wonderful Hugh Wallis site :
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hughwallis/IGIBatchNumberFAQs.htm#OnlyFemales

Regards,
Mo