I have found some baptisms where the mother went back to her own home to give birth especially first births - wanting to have her mother on hand for the birth?- so perhaps you could try the mother's home parish. Clare On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 9:38 AM, Janet Crawford via < cotipperary@rootsweb.com> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > 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 >

Hi Clare It was fairly common all over the UK for the fist born to be at home and baptised in the mothers home parish Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 13/08/2014 09:49, Clare Tuohy via wrote: > I have found some baptisms where the mother went back to her own home to > give birth especially first births - wanting to have her mother on hand > for the birth?- so perhaps you could try the mother's home parish. > > Clare