Hello, Missing Lincs, This is a good month to check your assumptions. I note that on another mailing list there is discussion over a burial recorded in a church register. Remember, it was the church that recorded baptisms and burials. In the church's philosophy, your life is bracketed by when you were baptised and when you were buried. Didn't really matter to them when you were born. Or even, to a small extent when you died. Most of our ancestors were baptised within a few weeks of birth, but sometimes mom waited until hubby came home from a long fishing trip or a military venture. A few of our ancestors were baptised twice. No harm, no foul, but it might confuse the family historian. And normally, you only got one burial. Social custom was that the deceased would be buried within three days of death, but exceptions abound. And if you fell off of your fishing boat and were lost at sea, there was no burial. Now, a death certificate would have been in order after Civil Registration ! came into effect, but anyone of legal age could be an informant of a death, and what was recorded was often their "best guess" as to your age, etc. Oh, and first names for children weren't always cast in stone either. "Little Johnny" could be recorded that way on a Civil Registration record, but as "Cyrus John BLOXTON" on a baptism record. And introduced to the church congregation at a Christening as "Fergus C. BLOXTON" a few weeks later. I have a family tree full of ancestors born under one set of names, but recorded in the census under other sets of names. Why? Did the family not like the tradition of Cyrus John BLOXTON III? I'll probably never know. So, examine your assumptions. My step dad, by the way, didn't know until he was an adult how his first name was recorded on his birth certificate. He'd never seen it and didn't think he needed to. So what is your "real" name? Have you looked? Or do you just tell people that the courthouse burned down. Yeah, I've heard that one a few times. Lou (list admin.)

Hello Lou, You are right about some people getting baptised a lot later than the usual few days or weeks. Joseph ABBOTT, for example, was born about 1811 at Driby but waited until December 1879 to get baptised at Louth. He took some finding! Several ancestors appear never to have bothered getting baptised at all, but I suspect that is more a case of parish clergymen forgetting to make entries in the appropriate register. What a shame! Best wishes, Mark in Catalonia, Spain Sent from Outlook<http://aka.ms/weboutlook> ________________________________ From: ENG-LINCSGEN <eng-lincsgen-bounces+markbarcelona=hotmail.com@rootsweb.com> on behalf of lr_mills@mauimail.com <lr_mills@mauimail.com> Sent: Sunday, February 5, 2017 9:55 PM To: eng-lincsgen Subject: [LIN] Admin. note: Assumptions Hello, Missing Lincs, This is a good month to check your assumptions. I note that on another mailing list there is discussion over a burial recorded in a church register. Remember, it was the church that recorded baptisms and burials. In the church's philosophy, your life is bracketed by when you were baptised and when you were buried. Didn't really matter to them when you were born. Or even, to a small extent when you died. Most of our ancestors were baptised within a few weeks of birth, but sometimes mom waited until hubby came home from a long fishing trip or a military venture. A few of our ancestors were baptised twice. No harm, no foul, but it might confuse the family historian. And normally, you only got one burial. Social custom was that the deceased would be buried within three days of death, but exceptions abound. And if you fell off of your fishing boat and were lost at sea, there was no burial. Now, a death certificate would have been in order after Civil Registration came into effect, but anyone of legal age could be an informant of a death, and what was recorded was often their "best guess" as to your age, etc. Oh, and first names for children weren't always cast in stone either. "Little Johnny" could be recorded that way on a Civil Registration record, but as "Cyrus John BLOXTON" on a baptism record. And introduced to the church congregation at a Christening as "Fergus C. BLOXTON" a few weeks later. I have a family tree full of ancestors born under one set of names, but recorded in the census under other sets of names. Why? Did the family not like the tradition of Cyrus John BLOXTON III? I'll probably never know. So, examine your assumptions. My step dad, by the way, didn't know until he was an adult how his first name was recorded on his birth certificate. He'd never seen it and didn't think he needed to. So what is your "real" name? Have you looked? Or do you just tell people that the courthouse burned down. Yeah, I've heard that one a few times. Lou (list admin.) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-LINCSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message