Ann I can't answer your question definitively but would like to make a couple of comments. He also signed the baptismal register on other occasions as well, both earlier and later. There was a House of Correction not far away, on Mount Pleasant, and perhaps that is where Rev J W Horsley was Chaplain. There seem to have been quite a few different clergy baptising people at St James at the start of 1878 and perhaps he was just helping out on occasions, because the vicar was away for some reason. Although in general the addresses of the people being baptised by him don't look as if they were in prison at the time, there was one baptism he performed on 27 Feb where the address of the person was given as House of Correction - and this entry was also out of date sequence in the Register - which could mean that the baptism was actually performed in the prison itself and entered in the Register at a later date. Nick member 4108 Chesson and variants On 16/05/2016 16:46, ann wadge via wrote: > On 27th January 1878 2 of the baptisms at St James' Clerkenwell were carried out by "J W Horsley Chaplain House of Correction". > Can anyone explain the possible reason for this please ? > Ann >

the house of correction is still there in clerkenwell, I think it is now some small business workshopps. I can take photo next time I go past it - may be a while, it is not on my regular route On 17 May 2016 at 09:21, Nicholas Spence via <[email protected]> wrote: > Ann > > I can't answer your question definitively but would like to make a > couple of comments. > > He also signed the baptismal register on other occasions as well, both > earlier and later. There was a House of Correction not far away, on > Mount Pleasant, and perhaps that is where Rev J W Horsley was Chaplain. > There seem to have been quite a few different clergy baptising people at > St James at the start of 1878 and perhaps he was just helping out on > occasions, because the vicar was away for some reason. Although in > general the addresses of the people being baptised by him don't look as > if they were in prison at the time, there was one baptism he performed > on 27 Feb where the address of the person was given as House of > Correction - and this entry was also out of date sequence in the > Register - which could mean that the baptism was actually performed in > the prison itself and entered in the Register at a later date. > > Nick member 4108 > Chesson and variants > > On 16/05/2016 16:46, ann wadge via wrote: >> On 27th January 1878 2 of the baptisms at St James' Clerkenwell were carried out by "J W Horsley Chaplain House of Correction". >> Can anyone explain the possible reason for this please ? >> Ann >> > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > 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