Genealogy Chat

I have been looking a some parish registers for St Mary Rotherhithe and found some ancestors of mine had a note above their bapstisms as above. Their father was a Mariner. I noticed that a lot of the others on the page had similar notes whose father's were shipwrights etc. Did the mother wait for the fathers to return from sea to have the children baptised?

I've come across this before when a child was privately baptised. Sometimes the vicar has added the date of birth - I've usually thought that maybe the baby was ill, baptised at home, recovered and then went to church to be officially "received" at a later date.

Jill

I agree with the above i also found an instant where the baby was ill? and was baptised at home in one name and received into church with another name

I agree with MrsGrumpy.

The child will have been baptised privately, usually at home, either because the child was poorly or they didn't want the hoi poloi looking on! At a later date the baby would be taken to the Church and received into the congregation.

I have one where the father was the Church incumbant but had returned to his country parish for his wife to give birth.
The register showed that the child was privately baptised at the country address and then recieved into his own church a month or so later.


Chris

It is a possibilty. However after having another look there are a great many mariner's children baptised a year or so after the birth.