DORSET-L Archives
Archiver > DORSET > 2003-02 > 1045831942
From: Susan <>
Subject: [DOR] Re: DORSET-D Digest V03 #53 - Births and baptisms
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 08:52:22 -0400
References: <200302210736.h1L7afnZ009478@lists5.rootsweb.com>
Jeremy,
I'm afraid I'm not familiar with the parishes of Bettiscombe and
Thorncombe but is it possible they were joint parishes served by the
same minister. I've run across a similar situation in Sussex in the
late 18th C but when I asked on that list someone pointed out that the
two parishes in question were actually 'one parish with two churches'.
It was suggested that the minister or curate may have forgotten that
the baptism had already been recorded in one church record and
mistakenly recorded it again in the second.
Jeremy Wilkes wrote
> The raising of this subject has caused me to ask whether anyone can
> suggest a reason for another oddity that I found in a baptismal
> register. In Bettiscombe in the 1840s dates of birth were entered in
> cases of late baptism and also for the children of John and Sarah
> Caddey, and no others. John was a farmer, and in 1851 had 391 acres
> and 25 labourers. I expect that he was thereby accounted a prosperous
> yeoman, but certainly not one of the gentry. Incidentally, he seems to
> have had his baptism recorded in the parish registers at Bettiscombe
> in January 1815 and at Thorncombe in February 1815!
Regards,
Susan
Bridgewater, Nova Scotia
http://users.eastlink.ca/~twoloons/index.html
This thread: