I wonder if someone could explain something to me. Ive been transcribing baptism records for the period 1837 - 1881 for Tickenham in Somerset. I have several times come across a note in the side of the record. "P.B." Am I right in presuming this means privately baptised or private baptism? I have also come across the comment "received into the Church" and it gives a date - later than the baptism. What does this mean? It sometimes appears when there has been a private baptism. Interested to know. Sarah Baddeley
Hi Sarah PB probably refers to Private Baptism If the child was not expected to live, the local midwife was often permitted to Baptise the child. Remember that at that time, un-baptised could not be buried in "sacred ground". Received into Church usually happened if, after a Private Baptism and the Child lived, the usual "reception into the Church" took place. Jim http://www.payman.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk Now 24,000 Names in the forest Have found the WOODs and WOODLANDs (+ a BUSH) there are BIRDs in the trees (including SPARROWs) Also COOKs, BUTLERs, BUTCHERs BAKER's, CAKEs and OVENS Have PRINCEs, KINGs & DUKEs PARSONS, POPEs & BISHOPs but mostly Ag Labs - Happy Hunting see also: http://www.fromeresearch.org.uk http://www.opcdorset.com http://www.communigate.co.uk/twc/fromedissenters/index.phtml ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, February 07, 2011 9:35 PM Subject: [ENG-SOM] Baptisms >I wonder if someone could explain something to me. Ive been transcribing > baptism records for the period 1837 - 1881 for Tickenham in Somerset. > > I have several times come across a note in the side of the record. "P.B." > Am I right in presuming this means privately baptised or private baptism? > > I have also come across the comment "received into the Church" and it > gives > a date - later than the baptism. What does this mean? It sometimes > appears when there has been a private baptism. > > Interested to know. > > Sarah Baddeley > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message