Christening an adult

[wellmichelle]

How usual would it have been in 1872 for an adult to have been christened at the age of 20. My great-great-great-grandmother Mary Ann Brandon, was unmarried when she gave birth to a daughter in September 1872, but earlier that year, in February, Mary Ann was christened.  I am guessing it was because her parents had discovered at that stage that she was pregnant.

[stanmapstone]

Adult baptism was quite common. There has always been a service in the Book of Common Prayer for the "Baptism of Those of Riper Years"

Stan

[coombs]

I have an ancestor who was baptised aged 20. He married 3 years later in 1854.

[mothball]

Good  lord

My grandparents got Baptised well over 60!!!

[teaurn]

A couple of my rellies got baptised just before they got married,  I always wondered whether they had to be baptised before they could get married in a Church

T

[stanmapstone]

The Book of Common Prayer has this comment:
"It is convenient that the new-married persons should receive the holy Communion at the time of their Marriage, or at the first opportunity after their Marriage." You had to be baptised to receive Communion.

Stan

[mothball]

Mine must have done it to be fashionable then!

Repenting their sins no doubt..................................................

[Jeuel]

My gt x 3 grandmother Hannah Matthews was baptised the same day as her son (gt x 2 grandfather) Emmets.  No idea why it was done then, she'd already been married and had an older son, baptised 2 years previously.