Hello Mairie/Marie (your name appears two ways in messages to the list) I append the International Genealogical Index (IGI) entry for Daniel's baptism at Somerford Keynes, Gloucester [sic] correctly Wiltshire. It is a controlled extraction process entry of his Church of England baptism which the Mormons call christening here because they practice a form of 'adult' baptism only (BTW, there are also two LDS [Mormon] patron submissions in the IGI which I have not appended as they, presumably, derive from this entry or the original parish register entry from which this index copy is, in turn, meant to derive)(N.B. I have also eliminated some of the excess verbiage and spacing, none of which is helpful, I find)(See www.familysearch.org for more.) DANIEL CLARK Event(s): Birth: Christening: 06 JUL 1784 Somerford Keynes, Gloucester, England Death: Burial: Parents: Father: WILLIAM CLARK Mother: MARY Messages: Extracted birth or christening record for the locality listed in the record. The source records are usually arranged chronologically by the birth or christening date. Source Information: Batch No.: C054901 Years: 1543-1812; 0857051 Film; 6911984 Film At the time, Somerford Keynes was in Wiltshire, though the LDS extraction process uses the county to which it was transferred in 1897 for sorting purposes. This entry, then, contains an historical and archival anachronism, akin to "USSR-Napoleonic Invasion" (Library of Congress subject heading catalog[ue]), though one not so glaringly obvious that anybody would immediately note it. The birth date you quoted may REALLY have been the same as the baptismal date, OR somewhere along the line someone may have decided that the christening/baptism date was his actual birthdate, without any independent substantiation of that claim. In the C of E one can be baptised at any time after birth, though after the break with Rome, the tendency was to baptise anywhere from a few days later to the more customary six weeks or so, unless there were an emergency (danger of infant death, normally). Some families, of course, waited years, and had their children 'done' in a job lot. At any rate, you'll want to bear in mind the possibility that Daniel's baptismal date may not IN FACT be his birth date as well as his date of baptism UNLESS you have some other convincing source information to believe that this was indeed the case. I hope this helps you. All the best, Richard OPC Purton and Rodbourne Cheney, Wilts. (with the occasional SK stray in my own LARGE family tree [by which I mean my maternal grandmother's maiden name, LARGE) Richard Carruthers, M.A. (Oxon.) ---------------------------------------- > From: heartseas@bigpond.com > To: nfrey@auracom.com; bristol_and_district@rootsweb.com > Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 09:58:10 +1100 > Subject: Re: [B&D] Daniel Clark > > Dear Nancy, > I Know there is no Daniel Clark christened with Parents Robert and Mary. > You misunderstood my email. > I would like to know in which church the Daniel Clark born 6th July 1784 > in Somerford Keynes Gloucestershire to parents William and Mary Clark (nee > Ancock) would have been christened. > Marie in Australia > > Everything has it's beauty, but not everyone sees it > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_DISTRICT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________