Hi Linda Here is an example of Births and the following Baptism for each from a protestant family living in Co Carlow in the mid 1800's. born on the 8th June 1851 baptised on the 3rd August 1851 born on the 22nd November 1852 baptised on the 19th June 1853. born on the 15th September 1854 baptised on the 8th January 1855. born on the 5th August 1856 baptised on the 26th October 1856 born on the 9th September 1859 baptised on the 10th October 1859 born on the 13th August 1861 baptised on the 1st January 1862 born on the 13 April 1864 baptised on the 26th June 1864 born on the 26 December 1865 baptised on the 24th April 1866 born on the 1st August 1868 baptised on the 14th October 1868. Susie > > Message: 3 > Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2010 10:12:20 -0700 > From: "Linda Shipman" <leshipman1@att.net> > Subject: [IRL-CARLOW] General question about baptisms > To: <irl-carlow@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <0B82F4DE97184C70AAF9DD9A1576E5AE@Linda> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" > > 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 > > ------------------------------