Baptism of one child only?

[Guest]

Family with 6 children yet can only find a bap for one, the only one in The childrens establishment Stepney in 1871.
And cannot find any Birth regs for any, including this one

Ideas please

[Sylvia C]

Val ...........

I can only say that I've had the same problem!!

Have you checked (I'm sure you have!) non-conformist baptisms????

or for very much later baptisms ........... around the time of a child starting work or getting married?

[Guest]

thanks Sylvia, I'll look further tomorrow, night then

[Sylvia C]

just an idea!

[Olde Crone Holden]

The one in the children's home would have been baptised because many Home insisted on it. It is no indication that the other children in the family were baptised at some point, it's just a bit of bureaucracy, if you like, not religious observance.

OC

[Guest]

hi and thanks, OC he is with his parents when baptised in 1860 and in the 1861 census, he then appears in 1871 in the home, seems odd.

[Olde Crone Holden]

Ah, sorry, I misunderstood! Perhaps he was baptised at birth because he was sickly and not expected to survive. Was he in the home because he was handicapped in some way?

OC

[Guest]

Dont know OC, I'm 99% sure he married one of my relatives ,he is the printer who married her in 1882 then they both disappear, remember him ? am sure he is the one who killed that person by poking him in the eye with a stick.

[Anne in Carlisle]

am sure he is the one who killed that person by poking him in the eye with a stick.

LOL Val, wasn't that the battle of Hastings?
Anne

[Guest]

lol no, he really did he was in a pub, I do wonder if his wife left him ,rather than live with a murderer.

[Chrissie Smiff]

I wonder if he had a form of autism, and his parents put him in the home because they didn't know how to handle him. He may have improved enough to marry, but not realised the potential risk of poking someone in the eye with a stick?

[Guest]

could be Chrissie, hope I find out eventually.