In a current thread on baptisms, Janet posted:"First, if Honora Power was the child's natural mother, she is having her child baptized in her own parish."I have a family in which I cannot find the baptism for the eldest child. Was it typical (or even likely) for the mother to return to her birth parish to baptise the eldest child, even though she had already relocated/moved to her husband's home parish? Pat

Pat, The only other time I have heard it done was if the priest in the home parish was a very close rele of the mother of the child, i.e. perhaps a brother, and the mother wanted her brother/ cousin to baptize the first child. It would not be a common occurrence. There would have been fees to be shared or lost, you see. Janet On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 8:08 PM, Patricia Petrizzo via < cotipperary@rootsweb.com> wrote: > In a current thread on baptisms, Janet posted:"First, if Honora Power was > the child's natural mother, she is having her > child baptized in her own parish."I have a family in which I cannot find > the baptism for the eldest child. Was it typical (or even likely) for the > mother to return to her birth parish to baptise the eldest child, even > though she had already relocated/moved to her husband's home parish? > Pat > > > > > > > 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 >