Baptisms would they say if father dead ?

[Guest]

I have a family where I thought the husband had died in 1855 ?? but I have today found baptisms for children after he died ??? and his name is on them

[dicole]

I have seen "widow" inserted after mothers name, and also "deceased" before the father. I think I remember seen "posthumous" written as well.

Just looking through different parishes of London on the LMA records, it seems to depend on the minister or curate as to how much information was recorded - some wrote the bare necessities and some recorded great detail. I seem to remember some comment on a baptism to the effect that the husband had been deceased a year or so !!

Di

[Night Owl]

I found one of mine last week where the father's occupation says "Clerk, deceased" (this was St Marylebone)

[Ozzie Gert]

It would depend on each individual Vicar, some would not record parents, some would record parents and include info if they were dead others would not record the fact that they were dead.

Sylvia

[Lynn The Forest Fan]

I have one who was born in 1848 & not baptsed until 1850 & that lists his father as being deceased.

[Guest]

thanks everyone what a pain was hoping I had made a mistake now not sure ???

[Little Nell]

Only recently I found a baptism (cant remember who it was now) baptised at the age of 6 or so, father had died about 3 years earlier, but no mention of it.

[kylejustin]

my 2nd great grandma was baptised age 16 in 1887. doesnt mention her dad being dead, as on the 1881 census, but the parents so far havnt married, and he is away on the only census they should be together! i havnt seen any deaths, and cant get backwards with him either!