Hi Cara: Would you also comment on why one child would be baptized COI, and the next one, RC ? Jim -----Original Message----- From: Cara Sent: Sunday, December 16, 2012 6:16 AM To: irl-dublin@rootsweb.com Subject: [IRL-DUBLIN] POOLE family I have read all these mails on baptism, and now as I gather some time, I can see none of you are any further ahead in solving what you see as a problem in why and how the baptisms occurred as such. I am assuming as I cannot recall that the Poole family are Church of Ireland or Quakers. In my case the Poole family is Quakers so forgive my assumption on your family. Church of Ireland did not allow a woman into the church whilst she was classed as unclean,( if you do not know what I meant when I say unclean write to me off list ) so therefore that had a bearing on how long before a mother could re-enter her church, every mother liked to be present when her child was baptised 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. Children were baptised sometimes in groups of 3. 4 and more from the one family, not because they were forgotten but because of circumstances, because sometimes their work moved them around, and the child born in Co Wexford may have had a father who by the time he was found by a travelling clergyman, been working in Dublin, and then out the mother would trot, Jack, Jill and Jenny and they were done as a bulk lot. Farming communities were another that had the problem of getting away from work for a bapstism, and quite often the grandmother presented the child at the church ( RC) for baptism. Happened a lot in Rural areas. Now when the law changed in 1864 which was that every child had to be registered, have you considered little Johnny may have been registered but not necessarily baptised,or bapstised and not registered. Then you had the happy clergyman who stopped by and baptised little Johnny and on the clergymn's way home, on his horse after imbibing a wine or two, he lost the little scrap of paper with Johnnys baptism notes on it, then of course this scrap of paper if it did make it to the church, also, could be placed somewhere for safe keeping, if the parish man was not the one doing the placing in the parish register, but someone else, there is so many things that can happen to a piece of paper. ( I have an original of one of these pieces of papers). You of course have not even allowed for the child who was not at home on the day the priest or vicar called. Bit like the census ( he's not home mister) Now although this is brief synopsis tomorrow I will take the time to take down some examples to show you of all these things happening. Also I will add in what is expected to be found on certs and within a parish register. I am more confused because the facts have not been put in order of what, when why and how, and not enough information was added in, each mail, they should at least say, my family are CofI or RC as the person searching the archives cannot know this for future reference either. Each Religion had their own regulations ( for want of a better word) Cara ****************************** 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