From: Mollie <molliemln@yahoo.co.uk> > The likely reason would be that the family were in need of Parish > relief.  This was administered by the C of E.  > That is certainly one reason. However, if you have ever heard a lecture or read articles by Mike Gandy, one of the leading UK experts on Nonconformism, he would tell you that people were changing faiths and "dropping in and out" of various denominations all the time. It often wasn't a hard and fast and unchangeable ruling. Consider, for instance, the fact that a married couple might have different faiths! Perhaps the husband was CoE and the wife Methodist. Might they not have come to an agreement to have some of the children baptised into one church and others in another? I can think of other reasons. If they weren't particularly devout or steadfast in their religion, they might have found it convenient to have children baptised in whichever church or chapel was the nearest when they moved home. We shouldn't always look for complicated reasons when the truth is actually much simpler! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Roy is right. My family were all C of E, but when we moved house I was sent to the local Methodist Sunday School, just because it was near and convenient. Colin -----Original Message----- From: yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:yorksgen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of roy.stockdill@btinternet.com Sent: Monday, October 01, 2012 1:43 PM To: Robert Burns; yorksgen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] Why change faith From: Mollie <molliemln@yahoo.co.uk> > The likely reason would be that the family were in need of Parish > relief.  This was administered by the C of E.  > That is certainly one reason. However, if you have ever heard a lecture or read articles by Mike Gandy, one of the leading UK experts on Nonconformism, he would tell you that people were changing faiths and "dropping in and out" of various denominations all the time. It often wasn't a hard and fast and unchangeable ruling. Consider, for instance, the fact that a married couple might have different faiths! Perhaps the husband was CoE and the wife Methodist. Might they not have come to an agreement to have some of the children baptised into one church and others in another? I can think of other reasons. If they weren't particularly devout or steadfast in their religion, they might have found it convenient to have children baptised in whichever church or chapel was the nearest when they moved home. We shouldn't always look for complicated reasons when the truth is actually much simpler! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE ..... Ancestors in Yorkshire? http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html; www.ryedalefamilyhistory.org; www.wharfedalefhg.org.uk; www.yorkshireparishregisters.com; www.yorkshireroots.org.uk; ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to YORKSGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message