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Online Ray T

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Re: Non baptism?
« Reply #9 on: Friday 21 February 25 11:33 GMT (UK) »
No direct evidence but I get the impression that girls were more likely to be baptised than boys.

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Re: Non baptism?
« Reply #10 on: Friday 21 February 25 13:18 GMT (UK) »
I have an ancestor born c1763/1764 in Suffolk, most likely, whose baptism I have never been able to find, but the parents were millers and they flitted between Norfolk and Suffolk and moved around a lot. He had 2 older siblings baptised in 1750 and 1760, but I found a 4th sibling who died in 1774 but no age at death but the parents names were given on the burial. No baptism has been found for the final child either.

20 years ago at Lowestoft, a long standing archivist there said there could be many reasons, or maybe the Titshall's were out of Suffolk when the baby was born 1763/1764.
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LONDON, Coombs, Roberts, Auber, Helsdon, Fradine, Morin, Goodacre
DORSET Coombs, Munday
NORFOLK Helsdon, Riches, Harbord, Budery
KENT Roberts, Goodacre
SUSSEX Walder, Boniface, Dinnage, Standen, Lee, Botten, Wickham, Jupp
SUFFOLK Titshall, Frost, Fairweather, Mayhew, Archer, Eade, Scarfe
DURHAM Stewart, Musgrave, Wilson, Forster
SCOTLAND Stewart in Selkirk
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Re: Non baptism?
« Reply #11 on: Friday 21 February 25 14:39 GMT (UK) »
Thanks guys, I, m struggling to find a bap around 1793 ish, I, ll try variations on surname

Also, you should be aware that not everyone was baptised as a baby or young child, they might be baptised much later. So, it's worth checking later years.
   
I used to transcribe old parish records, and I've seen many examples of later baptisms - including where several siblings of varying ages (from babies to 10/11 years old, sometimes older) were baptised together in a "batch".  Also, adults baptised carried shortly before they married.
Wood(s) – Lancashire/Clayton-le-Moors & Sawley (orig. W.Yorkshire 1841)
Thornley, Heyes – Lancashire/Clayton-le-Moors
Emmett – Lancashire/Chorley, Blackburn
Nightingale, Livesey, Warburton, Gorton – Lancashire/Blackburn, Darwen
Kilshaw - Lancaster
Mahoney – Oswaldtwistle, Ireland
Brennan – E.Lancs., Tipperary

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Re: Non baptism?
« Reply #12 on: Friday 21 February 25 16:04 GMT (UK) »
Just to add another dimension, I have two sister who were not baptised until several years after their marriage, all their siblings were baptised as babies. So don’t expect any had and fast rule.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.


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Re: Non baptism?
« Reply #13 on: Friday 21 February 25 16:06 GMT (UK) »
My mam had a "set" of four cousins... the girls were bapped as RC and the boys as C of E.
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Re: Non baptism?
« Reply #14 on: Saturday 22 February 25 23:22 GMT (UK) »
Do you want to post the details of who you are looking for.
Yes a Leonard Ellis, around 1793ish around Wellington Shropshire, I have his marriage but no bap
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