Hello, I went to the online site for these baptisms for this church and while scanning, I noticed 35 baptisms dated June 20. Then I started checking and I would see batches of same date baptisms. A great deal of them were on Sept. 11. I realize these aren't the birth dates. It occurred to me that everyone with newborns, must have waited for some time to have these babies baptized. Or was that a custom of the church to do all new births at one time? It is just something that has got me curious. Does anyone know why this is? Leemae from Mi.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com
Availability of ordained minister who could Administer the sacrament. Not all churches had ministers full-time, thus had to wait until one became available. I have ancestors who had all their children who were born during the Revolutionary War baptized the same day after the war was over. Tom Terbush -----Original Message----- From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of l. s. Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 9:32 PM To: DUTCH-COLONIES@rootsweb.com Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Kingston Church Ulster Co. baptisms Hello, I went to the online site for these baptisms for this church and while scanning, I noticed 35 baptisms dated June 20. Then I started checking and I would see batches of same date baptisms. A great deal of them were on Sept. 11. I realize these aren't the birth dates. It occurred to me that everyone with newborns, must have waited for some time to have these babies baptized. Or was that a custom of the church to do all new births at one time? It is just something that has got me curious. Does anyone know why this is? Leemae from Mi.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Depending on the year, churches were mostly run by elders, and lay ministers. Ordained ministers revolved around a circuit of churches. This was common early on in the 17th Century and became less common as churches picked up permanent clergymen. Some of those clergymen were more meticulous than others and the birthdates were also recorded. Sometimes they were even so good as to record where the family lived. Many, for example, were baptized say in Kingston, but lived far away, say Wawarsing. So there is some measure of difficulty in figuring out many aspects of the genealogy of a family or a child of Dutch descent in New York and to some degree New Jersey. But then again if you have English ancestors from this same period often there are no written, extant, church records. Edward Otte -----Original Message----- From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Tom Terbush Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 10:00 PM To: dutch-colonies@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Kingston Church Ulster Co. baptisms Availability of ordained minister who could Administer the sacrament. Not all churches had ministers full-time, thus had to wait until one became available. I have ancestors who had all their children who were born during the Revolutionary War baptized the same day after the war was over. Tom Terbush -----Original Message----- From: dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:dutch-colonies-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of l. s. Sent: Saturday, February 10, 2007 9:32 PM To: DUTCH-COLONIES@rootsweb.com Subject: [DUTCH-COLONIES] Kingston Church Ulster Co. baptisms Hello, I went to the online site for these baptisms for this church and while scanning, I noticed 35 baptisms dated June 20. Then I started checking and I would see batches of same date baptisms. A great deal of them were on Sept. 11. I realize these aren't the birth dates. It occurred to me that everyone with newborns, must have waited for some time to have these babies baptized. Or was that a custom of the church to do all new births at one time? It is just something that has got me curious. Does anyone know why this is? Leemae from Mi.Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUTCH-COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message