Just as another answer to the question:: If a family fell on hard times, due to sickness or desertion or anything else, a family couldn't get assistance from the Parish, unless they were baptised in that parish. Sometimes families that moved from one are to another and did well for a while then things went wrong, they would have to go back to where they came from for aid. If a family had been very devout Methodist/Weslyan when these bad things happened, they may have had to get children Baptised in the established Church, in order to get assitance. Yours in Genealogy, Jan, in sunny QLD, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard" <RS-genealogy@snowman1.f9.co.uk> To: <eng-manchester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] Marriage Records for Manchester Cathedral >I can't answer the original question but I have just come across a case > where 5 siblings were baptised at the same time! Eldest was 11, youngest > given as "infant". Must be cheaper in bulk! > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: eng-manchester-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:eng-manchester-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Irene > Marlborough > Sent: 18 February 2013 20:20 > To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] Marriage Records for Manchester Cathedral > > Joanne wrote: "Can anyone suggest why a set of parents might baptise two > children only three months apart and in churches of different > denominations... "

Another good idea which I hadn't previously come up with. Thank you for this. Joanne -----Original Message----- From: eng-manchester-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:eng-manchester-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of geejay Sent: Wednesday, 20 February 2013 7:45 AM To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] Multiple baptizms, new thoughts Just as another answer to the question:: If a family fell on hard times, due to sickness or desertion or anything else, a family couldn't get assistance from the Parish, unless they were baptised in that parish. Sometimes families that moved from one are to another and did well for a while then things went wrong, they would have to go back to where they came from for aid. If a family had been very devout Methodist/Weslyan when these bad things happened, they may have had to get children Baptised in the established Church, in order to get assitance. Yours in Genealogy, Jan, in sunny QLD, Australia ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard" <RS-genealogy@snowman1.f9.co.uk> To: <eng-manchester@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 10:56 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] Marriage Records for Manchester Cathedral >I can't answer the original question but I have just come across a case > where 5 siblings were baptised at the same time! Eldest was 11, youngest > given as "infant". Must be cheaper in bulk! > > Richard > > -----Original Message----- > From: eng-manchester-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:eng-manchester-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Irene > Marlborough > Sent: 18 February 2013 20:20 > To: eng-manchester@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ENG-MAN] Marriage Records for Manchester Cathedral > > Joanne wrote: "Can anyone suggest why a set of parents might baptise two > children only three months apart and in churches of different > denominations... " :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: Except for personal messages, please post replies to the list. Other people can learn from them! Be sure list mail is in PLAIN TEXT. Please SNIP when replying. Buy or sell family research items on the GEN-MAT-UKI mailing list. No fees! :-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~:-~: ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ENG-MANCHESTER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message