Has anyone ever come across a record of some kind of ceremony like a confirmation which could be confused with a baptism?
The reason I'm asking is because I've got a baptism in 1800 & then a baptism of a child with the same name....probably in the same family....in 1812. I'd just dismiss this as different families or, for some reason, having 2 children with the same name, but one of these two then seems to disappear....& I can't find a death. When the person first appears on the census records, they give their birth as 1812....which would be more or less impossible in view of the ages of their children....on all subsequent census records (at the same address) it's given as c1800. Another explanation could be that the family had 2 children with the same name....the one baptised in 1812 died...just can't find the death....&, for the first census, the one baptised in 1801 used his brother's 1812 baptism record by mistake
The reason I'm asking is because I've got a baptism in 1800 & then a baptism of a child with the same name....probably in the same family....in 1812. I'd just dismiss this as different families or, for some reason, having 2 children with the same name, but one of these two then seems to disappear....& I can't find a death. When the person first appears on the census records, they give their birth as 1812....which would be more or less impossible in view of the ages of their children....on all subsequent census records (at the same address) it's given as c1800. Another explanation could be that the family had 2 children with the same name....the one baptised in 1812 died...just can't find the death....&, for the first census, the one baptised in 1801 used his brother's 1812 baptism record by mistake
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