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From: "Hazel Fuller" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Churching of women
Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 17:25:36 -0000
References: <3E243A8E.F95005C3@mail.tameside.gov.uk>


It was still normal in the Wirral at least in 1947 because my mother had
to be "churched" before my gran would let her into her house (next door)
after the birth of my brother.

Hazel

LEDSOME/WILLIAMS/DODD/WHITE etc.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Local Studies & Archives Unit" <>
To: <>
Sent: 14 January 2003 16:27
Subject: Re: [CHS] Churching of women


> Mainly because she was regarded as almost "unclean" - it wasn't
> only after a safe delivery!
>
> Nell,
> Tameside.
>
> "anne.cole" wrote:
>
> > I'm getting a lot of questions about the Churching of Women
(Thanksgiving
> > for safe delivery) which I really don't know very much about. I have
found
> > the service in my prayer book but cannot find any reference to it in
any of
> > the books that I have.
> >
> > I THINK that I am right in saying that for a certain time after the
birth
> > (six weeks?) a woman would not venture out of the house and until
she had
> > been "churched" she did not re-enter Society.
> >
> > On doing a google search I found the following
> > http://users.ox.ac.uk/~mikef/church.html
> > which has everything you could ever want to know about the subject!
> >
> > Anne
> >
> > Proud to be part of the FreeCen Project
> > http://freecen.rootsweb.com/
> >
> > Duncalf(e)/Duncuff/Duncuft One Name Study (GOONS #513)
> > http://homepage.ntlworld.com/anne.cole
> >
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> > http://www.fhsc.org.uk/surnames/
>
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