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

According to my husband, who is an ordained Minister, you are right Anne :) As this is not strictly London focused, although an interesting discussion, people may be interested to read about this on Wikipedia, although it may not all be correct :) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Churching_of_women regards Lin List Admin -----Original Message----- From: london-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:london-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Anne Peat Sent: 17 July 2011 12:00 To: Mike Fry Cc: london@rootsweb.com 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

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