<<snipped>> If Margaret was not expected to live, it is likely that she was baptised privately on the day she was born. However, I wonder why she would be baptised a second time? <<snipped> Normally the case is that the child is baptised privately and then (if they survive) goes to church to be "received" / "admitted" into the church before the full congregation. Theologically, it was _not_ a case of a second baptism - rather the later ceremony covered the bits of the full service that weren't in a simple private baptism, which, often of necessity, was very much abbreviated. Adrian B