How common was it for a child in the late 1700s to be baptised after her father's remarriage? I'll explain.....
James and Elizabeth have 5 children, the last being Jemima who is baptised in 1784 and buried in 1785.
I know from the parish records that another Jemima is born in 1786 and her parents are James and Mary.
Now I have never found a burial for Elizabeth but am 99.9% sure she died after having Jemima, there being no further baptisms for this young couple.
All this takes place in one village in Suffolk.
I have now had a contact who descends from one of the numerous children of the James and Mary and she has their marriage as 1783 so a year before the first Jemima's baptism.
So my thinking is that it is possible that James married Mary after Elizabeth's death and they had the second Jemima.
My question is... How likely is it that a child's baptism would be delayed till after a second marriage? Even if James was distraught at his first wife's death, possibly in childbirth, surely the vicar would have been in to sort it out or any of James' extended family that occupied a good proportion of the village?
I have asked my contact to confirm the source for the marriage so I can check it out but I just wondered if anyone had come across anything similar.
Many thanks
James and Elizabeth have 5 children, the last being Jemima who is baptised in 1784 and buried in 1785.
I know from the parish records that another Jemima is born in 1786 and her parents are James and Mary.
Now I have never found a burial for Elizabeth but am 99.9% sure she died after having Jemima, there being no further baptisms for this young couple.
All this takes place in one village in Suffolk.
I have now had a contact who descends from one of the numerous children of the James and Mary and she has their marriage as 1783 so a year before the first Jemima's baptism.
So my thinking is that it is possible that James married Mary after Elizabeth's death and they had the second Jemima.
My question is... How likely is it that a child's baptism would be delayed till after a second marriage? Even if James was distraught at his first wife's death, possibly in childbirth, surely the vicar would have been in to sort it out or any of James' extended family that occupied a good proportion of the village?
I have asked my contact to confirm the source for the marriage so I can check it out but I just wondered if anyone had come across anything similar.
Many thanks
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