Does anyone know what S:C stands for on 1748 St Paul Baptism Register?

[Sinann]

It's on both right enough.
Working back through the years sometimes it is just 'do' as in ditto
and here in 1730 it appears to have a + or cross after it
http://churchrecords.irishgenealogy.ie/churchrecords/display-pdf.jsp?pdfName=d-273-1-2-034

[SueChris]

Sorry Jen I missed looking at that page which I have now done. So yes these are baptisms where they say bap. I wonder if they could have been adult baptisms?

[Bookbox]

If you track back as far as 1728, some of the baptisms are annotated Soldier's Child.

[SueChris]

That's interesting. Thanks

[Bookbox]

So perhaps S = Soldier, and SW = Soldier's Wife?

[JenB]

If you track back as far as 1728, some of the baptisms are annotated Soldier's Child.

So perhaps S = Soldier, and SW = Soldier's Wife?

Now that does look very promising.

[Ruskie]

Very interesting and seems possible - but so many of them?

Why make note of "soldiers" and not other occupations? 

[Bookbox]

Very interesting and seems logical - but so many of them?

The barracks were adjacent to the church.

From Instructions to Corps doing Duty in the Garrison of Dublin (1834, p. 44)
99. -- All Soldiers and their Wives and Children who die in Dublin, are to be interred in the Churchyard of St. Paul's in rear of the Royal Barracks.
https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CEEIAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false

Admittedly the above is 100 years later than the registers being looked at, but these same barracks were in use from 1702 until the 1990s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collins_Barracks,_Dublin

Why make note of "soldiers"

Probably events relating to soldiers and their families needed to be recorded as such, for separate reporting to the military authorities?

[Ruskie]

The barracks were adjacent to the church.

In that case ....