Does anyone know how common was it to baptise all your children at once in 1822? Looking through baptism parish registers for records of my ancestors, I came across a page filled with the children of two of my ancestors I had been searching for. It would appear that they had 5 of their children all baptised on the same date and I'm pretty sure that they were all different ages. I thought that the beliefs of that time were that you should baptise your children as soon as possible, due to the infant mortality rate? Is it possible that if somebody moved parishes they would baptise all their children again in the new parish?
Thanks in advance!
Alice
Thanks in advance!
Alice
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