Adding to Ruth's comments, there are many variations in family habits as far as baptism is concerned: I have one line where the new baby was regularly baptised within 10 days-4 weeks after birth, but in one family of 4, the first baby followed this pattern. The second child was born at the same time as there were a couple of family deaths and a marrige, so he did not get baptised until the third was born and those two were baptised together. We cannot find the baptism for the 4th child but in 1818, 14 months after her birth, there is a special handwritten birth certificate for the baby wih an unrelated man (possibly a doctor) and her grandmother who were witnesses as "present at her birth!" I have never seen another like this from that time. In another family, five of the family were all baptised on the same day 15 January 1828. My 2x greatgrandmother was 3; the oldest child was 12 and the youngest 5 weeks - all had their birth dates written in the margin. Jean Wood > > Pat, don't mistake BAPTISM date for BIRTH date ... they are not usually the > same date! > It is not unusual to have a child baptised 14 months after his birth. > > There is no reason why this record could not be for your grgrpa. > > Ruth Burkholder > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 13:22:14 -0700 > From: Pat Connors <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [NTT] Carter > To: [email protected] > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > My gr grandfather and his family emigrated to the Niagara Falls/St > Catherines area of Canada from Nottinghamshire County. On his > gravestone, it says he was born Nov 23, 1789 in Toton, Derbyshire, > however, Toton is in Attenborough Parish in Nottinghamshire County. It > is my understanding that the boundaries changed which moved Toton from > one county to another. > > Yesterday, I looked at the film yesterday for Attenborough Parish and > found a William Carter baptised March 17, 1791 (it was hard to read > March so month could be different but year and date were clear). While > the record for William did not give the residence of the family, the > parents had a number of other children and in a couple of their > baptisms, it was noted they lived in Toton. > > My question...Is this birth in 1791 my great grandfather? It is only > two years off the date on his gravestone but the month and day is > different which gives me hesitation. Would love other opinions. > > -- > Pat Connors, Sacramento, CA > http://www.connorsgenealogy.com > > > > Notts Surname List > > http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~hughw/notts.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message