Which goes a long way to explaining those instances where the child is baptised before it is born - according to the date on the birth registration. The latter was often "adjusted" to bring it back within the 42 days! Polly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Josephine Jeremiah" <jojeremiah@dsl.pipex.com> To: <bristol_and_somerset@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 9:18 PM Subject: [B&S] Penalty for neglect in registering a birth, 1911 (was FW: Poor Law TNA Documents On-Line) On Tue, 26 Oct 2010 19:06:07 +0100, Lynne Charles <lynnecharles7@hotmail.com> wrote: > I was lead to believe that all, children had to be baptized by LAW pre > 1837. If they were not by a certain passage of time the parish church > could fine them. I haven't heard of that, but I read today that in 1911 the penalty was £2 if a birth wasn't registered within 42 days. Josephine -- Josephine Jeremiah www.ianandjo.dsl.pipex.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRISTOL_AND_SOMERSET-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message