Baptism Record...Family Mystery. Help Please

[SolomanR]

This terrible image show the baptism record for William Cooper May 22nd 1830. I have William in the 1841 and 1851 census alive and well. However relations of mine insist the note next to the entry is a notice of death/burial in April ? 1831. Can anyone please decipher what these few words say. I had to photgraph from screen as SEAX wont let me save. Thanks very much, Sol

[redtonyt]

Could it be 'privately baptised April 3 1831' - perhaps originally not expected to survive?


Tony

[Alexander.]

Have you asked your relations how, if it is his date of death, he shows up in 1841 and 1851?

I think it says "Received Pub[licl]y April 3 1831" or similar - not sure on the first word. In any case it amounts to the same as what Tony suggested - he was privately baptised in May 1830 probably because he was not expected to survive.

Alexander

[SolomanR]

Tony and Alexander, thanks very much! I have a record for him at the charge of the light brigade but I just needed to put this to bed. Cheers, Sol

[Scrabble]

Can I just suggest that you should be able to save images from SEAX by right-clicking on the image and choosing 'save as'. If you save it as ***.jpg it will save it as a jpeg.
Or, if all else fails, press "print screen" (which is probably just to the right of F12) and then open up a Word document or a viewer like Irfanview, paste it in, crop it if necessary, and save it.

Scrabble

[SolomanR]

Thanks for the tip Scrabble!

[Colin Cruddace]

Have you put the correct dates in your initial post?

A baptism in 1830 would not be followed by a private baptism almost a year later.

Colin

[Alexander.]

As I understand it, the 1830 baptism was the private one, and it was acknowledged publicly a year later (then being noted in the margin).

Alexander

[craggagh]

Hello -

I wouldn't be sure about the first word, but I would read the second as an abbreviation of baptised.

craggagh.