Good morning, Andy. As I recall, Baptists did not baptize infant children; they waited until the 'age of accountability' when a person could make up their own mind if they wanted baptism, and so request it ... what is known as "adult baptism". Andy, I know nothing about the Selston Baptists, just that if they followed the church precepts, there should not be a record of a baptism in 1812 of someone born in 1811. Does the church still exist ... would it have records? Ruth Burkholder, Ontario, Canada ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2011 11:30:08 +0000 From: Andy Micklethwaite <[email protected]> Subject: [NTT] Selston Baptist Church Records - George CLARK(E) To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" George CLARKE was born in Selston in 1811 or thereabouts - I have him on all the censuses, and his marriage to Charlotte SMITH in Pentrich in 1830, and I have a lot of info on his descendants. What I don't have is a baptism for him. On the old IGI there is a member submission for a very suitable one at Selston Baptists in 1812. Does anyone know where Selston Baptists baptisms can be checked? If the submission is correct, I then have to consider whether that one is mine - anyone have any thoughts as to how I might confirm it? There are no parents with George and family on the censuses, nor any useful neighbours. Andy. ------------------------------ End of NOTTSGEN Digest, Vol 4, Issue 211 ****************************************