Begin forwarded message: > From: Anne Peat <anne.peat@bigwindows.demon.co.uk> > Date: 23 October 2011 13:07:22 GMT+01:00 > To: Jan Moon <janmoon52@hotmail.com> > Subject: Re: [LON] City of London Lying In Hospital, Finsbury > > Because it was born there. > > Lying in hospitals were charitable institutions, and many had their own chaplains. Women (often sponsored by one of the trustees of the hospital) often came from quite a long way away to have their babies there. If the baby was frail, and because it was felt important to baptise babies as soon as possible after birth, the baptism would have taken place in the hospital chapel, rather than back at home. > > Anne > On 23 Oct 2011, at 04:16, Jan Moon wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> Why would a baby be baptised in a lying in Hospital?Jan >