Folks- I cannot answer the question at at hand although the suggestion of the nearest Church for a dying newborn is something that did happen often. The Schacke family-like many at the time- seems to have had more than its share of early deaths. I do know something about Kirchheimbolanden. Religiously, it was a fairly cosmopolitan place in the early 18th century. I did have -but seem to have lost- a CD of the transcriptions for all three churches: Katholische, Evangelische and Reformiert. The Roman Catholic Church goes back to the 17th century and so does, I think, the Lutheran. The Reformed (Calvinist) Church is newer as my ancestors first were registered in nearly Marnheim as teh KB Parish only functioned after the first decade or so of the 18th century. The Ducal rulers of the Pfalz at the time were Reformed, the Dukes of Nassau-Weilburg. My ancestors followed them from Hesse, back into the depopulated Pfalz. The only folks who were forced to be registered in a Parish not of their choice were the Jews, a practice common at the time. They generally appear in the Parish listing of the ruler's choice. Rob Hausman At 06:23 PM 4/9/2007, you wrote: >Hello Bob Gillis > >Thank you for your helpful response. > >I have recently learned that for specific periods in history laws have >forced people to be married (by Episcopal priests in Ontario in early 1800s) >or baptized (in Church of Ireland in Ireland in late 1800s) in specific >churches no matter what (or in spite of) their chosen religion. > >I wonder if this were true in the Rheinland Pfalz. Did one have to practice >the religion of the local ruler? > >It looks as if I need to learn more about the history of the area and to >discern the precise locations of the very changeable boundaries between the >areas controlled by dukes of different religions. > >W. Raymond Cummins >Mississauga ON Canada >cummins@utm.utoronto.ca > > >-----Original Message----- >From: pfalz-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pfalz-bounces@rootsweb.com] On >Behalf Of bob gillis >Sent: April 9, 2007 5:08 PM >To: pfalz@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [Pfalz] Catholic or Lutheran baptisms or RE: SCHACKE familiesin >Pfalz > >W. Raymond Cummins wrote: > > Thanks for the post about Kirchheimbolanden > > > > Where did you find the record of the birth of Johann Christoph Schacke on > > Jun 8 1720 in Kirchheimbolanden? > > Was it from the Catholic church book in Kirchheimbolanden? > > > >It is an extracted IGI record found on FamilySearch.org and was from >the Evangelisch Kirch Book. > > > > If so then you have a similar situation to mine. > > >From 1695-1725 I find Comens /Comen baptisms in the Catholic church in > > Kirchheimbolanden > > and in the Lutheran Churches in Morschheim, Orbis and Wendelsheim a few > > miles away. > > > >if a child was not expected to live long, it was oftern baptized in the >nearest church. > >bob gillis > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Robert E. Hausman hausman@bu.edu www.familytreemaker.com/users/h/a/u/Robert-E-Hausman/index.html HAUSMANN, ROUSSELET, HEERE, LAUBER, LATUS