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    1. [DOR-LIFE] Baptised Twice!
    2. Helen Jones
    3. Well - I am back!!! At least my computer is now on line as we now have a new transformer. The rest of the family will have to wait for the new Router to arrive on Monday then Steve can network us again! Sometime ago on the main Dorset list we discussed whether or not someone could be baptised twice. Today I was extracting Davidge records from the Ashmore Baptism Register 1813-1999 (Mic R 1655, PE ASH/RE 2/1) DCRO. The register appeared to have been copied up or annotated at later date judging by the comments in the margins alongside some entries. Anyway I found: 28 Sept 1845 Ann Rideout Davidge, d/o Morris and Jane Davidge, Green Lane, Ashmore There was an asterisk in the margin with a note in a different hand telling you to look at page 125. On page 125 was this entry: 24th June 1855 Anne Rideout Davidge d/o Morris and Jane Davidge, Green Lane, Ashmore Underneath in a different hand (same handwriting as in note above) saying "This child has been baptised before and was at this time, 10 years old but had been neglected to be ? by the incumbent" I could not make out the word where the ? is. It could have been registered but I am not certain. Anyway just proof that some people did get baptised more than once! Helen Helen Jones, Weymouth, Dorset http://www.melcombe.freeserve.co.uk List Admin Rootsweb Eng Dorset & Scammell Lists, and British Genealogy Eng-Dorset, Surnames & Forenames list

    07/19/2003 01:37:13