While we are on the subject of Baptismal records, can I tell you of my great grandmother's children's records. Great gran had 13 children born alive in her marriage. It states this fact in the 1911 census. It also states that 6 are still alive in 1911, at the time of Census taken. Both of these facts are correct. Yet, in the Baptismal records only six of the children are recorded. Five of the ones that lived into old age, and one of the 7 that died very young. When I asked my great aunt, daughter of great gran, she told me that the Parish Priest at the time was a native of great grans home parish, and a great friend of the said great gran. Apparently, he called on her every day for a chat and a glass or two of whisky. She said he would have baptised the children in the house and probably never got around to recording same in the Book! The said priest travelled on horseback. Great grans husband kept him supplied with hay and oats for the horse. What a pity he never recorded these children. Could something like this have happened in other places? Betty

Oh dear... life does sometimes interfere with what we would hope for in proper record keeping.... -----Original Message----- From: cotipperary-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:cotipperary-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Betty Gough via Sent: July 13, 2015 10:59 AM To: cotipperary@rootsweb.com Subject: [COTIPPERARY] Baptismal records....... While we are on the subject of Baptismal records, can I tell you of my great grandmother's children's records. Great gran had 13 children born alive in her marriage. It states this fact in the 1911 census. It also states that 6 are still alive in 1911, at the time of Census taken. Both of these facts are correct. Yet, in the Baptismal records only six of the children are recorded. Five of the ones that lived into old age, and one of the 7 that died very young. When I asked my great aunt, daughter of great gran, she told me that the Parish Priest at the time was a native of great grans home parish, and a great friend of the said great gran. Apparently, he called on her every day for a chat and a glass or two of whisky. She said he would have baptised the children in the house and probably never got around to recording same in the Book! The said priest travelled on horseback. Great grans husband kept him supplied with hay and oats for the horse. What a pity he never recorded these children. Could something like this have happened in other places? Betty When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. Thank You. All of the past messages of this list can be found in the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cotipperary ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message