Hi Stephen
Sometimes, if you are lucky, the vicars noted the charge alongside the
entries in the PR's for the hatches, matches and despatches, and they
were not particularly cheap, I calculated that a burial could cost
knocking on a weeks wage. I suspect that due to the cost some of my
missing ancestors are probably buried in someones backyard, because
they are certainly not in the church records.
According to a legend, from my neck of the woods. In the early 1800's,
the local vicar bought some plants from Judy, and said he wouldn't pay
until he was sure they would thrive.
Some years later Judy took her son to be baptised, and you can guess
her response.....
The story goes that the doctor tried the same trick later, and got the
same response when he treated her son.
Regards John
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stephen Keates" <steve(a)s-ckeates.fsnet.co.uk>
To: <GLAMORGAN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: 30 September 2000 17:26
Subject: age of baptism
HI Karin
To add to Johns answer, I don't know what period we are in here but
there
was at one time a fee for baptisms. So the poor saved them up, it
was
cheaper in the batch. In the PR's for Clayhidden Devon in my
family
there
are four children baptised in 1796 on the same day. The eldest is
given as
'about nine years old' and the youngest 6mths.
Steve
----- Original Message -----
From: "Karin John-Deutschler" <kdeutschler(a)guhdo.com>
To: <GLAMORGAN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: 28 September 2000 03:52
Subject: Re: Useful tip for beginners : like me
> What was the normal age that a child was christened then during
the
18th and
> 19th century?
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