My experience shows me that in Ireland the RC child was almost baptised from the womb, either by someone within the home or the current priest, with Church of Ireland it was a little different they seemed to have a waiting time to baptise them, but early when mortality rate was higher, it appears they also baptised as close to birth as possible. I have to say that I doubt that a child waited to baptised anywhere if there was someone who was concerned the child may die they baptised that said child immediately so if they waited in America to be baptised they must have been born of good stock. ( which is good) Cheers Cara ----- Original Message ----- From: "Linda Shipman" <leshipman1@att.net> To: <irl-carlow@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 22, 2010 4:12 AM Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] General question about baptisms >I would like to know if it was common in Carlow (around the late 1700's to >early 1800's) for newborns to be baptised right after birth...or was it >common to wait for a period of time? In America, it often happened that >newborns had to await their baptism (sometimes for years) because of no >church or official to do the baptismal. > > Thank you for any comments. > Linda > ======================================= > Before you post a message to the IRL-CARLOW mailing list you must > subscribe to the List. Its FREE! > --------------------------------------- > To subscribe to the IRL-Carlow mailing list, send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word "subscribe" (without the > quotes) in the Subject box. No additional text is required. > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > IRL-CARLOW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.437 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/2761 - Release Date: 03/21/10 07:33:00