"Churching" was not a "cleansing" ceremony - it was a thanksgiving service for surviving what was the most dangerous moment in a women's life. malcolm Wagga Wagga ----- Original Message ----- From: "Murlel Sherlock" <muriel.sherlock@iolfree.ie> To: "Anne Peat" <anne.peat@bigwindows.demon.co.uk>; "Mike Fry" <fredbonzo@iafrica.com> Cc: <london@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 12:43 AM Subject: Re: [LON] A Private Baptism? > Yes Anne , you are correct. I have a list of mothers who had to be > churched - think it was to cleanse them - wasn't it ? This was in the > Established Church. > But on the subject of Baptism........ I was taken to church to be > baptised > back in the 40's; but my sister and brother were baptised at home. The > Minister > came to our home. My sister was healthy and well, but my brother was a > weakly infant. > > Muriel > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Anne Peat" <anne.peat@bigwindows.demon.co.uk> > To: "Mike Fry" <fredbonzo@iafrica.com> > Cc: <london@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 12:00 PM > Subject: Re: [LON] A Private Baptism? > > >>I thought it was the mother who couldn't go anywhere until she was >>'churched'. So mothers very often weren't at the child's baptism, >>especially since it tended to be done very soon after birth. >> >> Anne >> On 17 Jul 2011, at 11:18, Mike Fry wrote: >> >>> On 2011/07/17 00:32, Murlel Sherlock wrote: >>> >>>> Another reason was, and this was very important back then ; That a >>>> child >>>> could not be taken out until it was baptised, hence PRIVATE BAPTISMS. >>> >>> Not heard that one before. How did the parents get the child to church >>> for a >>> normal baptism, if it couldn't be taken out until it had been baptised? >>> >>> -- >>> Regards, >>> Mike Fry >>> Johannesburg >> >> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> This mailing list works in parallel with the London surname interest list >> on the web at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/london.html . Check for >> matching interests and add your own ! >> >> Any problems, please contact the List Admin: LONDON-admin@rootsweb.com >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> LONDON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > This mailing list works in parallel with the London surname interest list > on the web at http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/london.html . Check for > matching interests and add your own ! > > Any problems, please contact the List Admin: LONDON-admin@rootsweb.com > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > LONDON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > ======= > Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. > (Email Guard: 7.0.0.21, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.17930) > http://www.pctools.com/ > ======= ======= Email scanned by PC Tools - No viruses or spyware found. (Email Guard: 7.0.0.21, Virus/Spyware Database: 6.17930) http://www.pctools.com/ =======