A priest yes could and no doubt would baptise a sickly child but Of all and there has been many registers I have transcribed, I have never seen a priest write in any parish register, Private, the only word I saw of any clear statement by a priest was ILL-- which I thought in the beginning of a what seems a hundred years ago now, meant ill........but it meant Illegitimate. that has always been only seen in a Church of Ireland registers. Answering these mails one at a time so as not to confuse thing more -----Original Message----- From: irl-dublin-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:irl-dublin-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Margaret Cambridge Sent: 17 December 2012 04:50 To: irl-dublin@rootsweb.com Subject: [IRL-DUBLIN] Baptism Cara, You said....... "...........and in the case of the Church of Ireland baptism a child would be baptised at home in a private service, if sickly same, and if quite well, if everything went well at least a month after the childs birth." I imagine a Priest would baptise an infant at home if necessary as well and then would that be mentioned on the baptismal record? Marg >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada ****************************** Topic: A mailing list for anyone with a genealogical interest in County Dublin, Ireland and the City of Dublin. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IRL-DUBLIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2805 / Virus Database: 2637/5963 - Release Date: 12/15/12

Cara, Your comment made me go back and look at all the baptismal records I have and did find a number of instances where St. Mary's documents had "privately" written in the left hand border. My Charlotte POOLE born 10 Dec 1875 was firstly baptised 18 Jan 1875 St. Mary, Pro Cathedral (RC) then on 6 January 1875, over 10 months later, "Privately", St. Mary (COI). Very interesting indeed why she would be baptised privately that long after being baptised RC. Many notes on St. Mary, Pro Cathedral documents written in Latin in the Circumstance column. I have only one which appears to say "Privatum". ...........and one comment "Father Protestant". Thank you Cara. I will study those documents closer from now on. Marg >From the Beautiful British Columbia Cariboo Region, Canada ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cara" <cara_links@bigpond.com> To: <irl-dublin@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 1:16 PM Subject: Re: [IRL-DUBLIN] Baptism A priest yes could and no doubt would baptise a sickly child but Of all and there has been many registers I have transcribed, I have never seen a priest write in any parish register, Private, the only word I saw of any clear statement by a priest was ILL-- which I thought in the beginning of a what seems a hundred years ago now, meant ill........but it meant Illegitimate. that has always been only seen in a Church of Ireland registers.