Hi Pauline What you say is true in theory (ie you can't be baptised twice) However when ever humans are involved there is scope for them to make a cock up of it If a person, later in life, was unsure if they were baptised, they might have a conditional baptism But I have at least two where the child was baptised twice, and several others where that may have been the case In one case the child was baptised as an infant and again as an 8 year old along with her younger siblings (none of which appear to have been baptised before) after their mother died, the other in a Wesleyan chapel, and the following year in a C of E church elsewhere, the same church used for all life events thereafter Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 10/12/2013 16:27, phodkinson@aol.com wrote: > > If the baby was baptised privately, it would have P in the margin. When the baby was 'received' into the church, it would have R in the margin. > A baby cannot be baptised twice so the first one would be the baptism and the second one would be when the child was brought to church. > > Pauline in Darwen

Thanks Nivard, I accept that mistakes are made. I, too have ancestors who were baptised twice, once on their own and once with siblings. I suppose rules were made to be broken. Pauline