Hmmm. Generally speaking, children were baptised in the parish where the parents normally lived, so if some of the children of a particular couple were baptised in one parish and some in another parish, that is usually an indication that the parents had moved from one parish to another. However it isn't hard and fast, and there could be lots of reasons why a child might be baptised in a parish other than that of its parents' domicile. Sometimes a young woman expecting her first child would go to her parents' home for the birth; in some places, the kirk of the neighbouring parish may be nearer, or easier to get to, than the kirk of the parish of residence; a minister might be ill or absent, and the parents might get the child baptised by a neighbouring minister; the parents might have some exceptional tie to another parish. Once you have looked up all the original baptisms and seen what they say, you might have a better idea of the reasons. Anne ________________________________ From: Edith Talbot <e.talbot@tinyworld.co.uk> To: angus@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, 9 April 2013, 20:11 Subject: [ANGUS] HELP WITH ANGUS PARRISHES I have families with children  bapt in glamis,  and I am trying to trace the families as to where they ended up' There are also  some of the children bapt in Forfar more or less alternativly to glammis, Did it make any difference that they lived in glamis, could they still have them bapt in Forfar, or could you have them bapt anywhere you liked, this era is the late 16 and 17 hundreds Hope this makes sense to you all edith ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ANGUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message