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mgnv | Report | 7 Jul 2012 18:04 |
Potty - I, too, was born in WW2. In my case, they evacuated the maternity wing to a country house just outside some village in Oxford. I don't know what hospital I was supposed to be born in - my guess is St Mary's, Praed St, right on top of Paddington Station. |
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Potty | Report | 7 Jul 2012 13:01 |
I too was baptised in hospital soon after birth. In my case it was because the hospital was close to the Thames and in danger of being bombed. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 7 Jul 2012 10:54 |
I was 'privately' baptised in 1953 in hospital as I was not expected to live. |
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mgnv | Report | 7 Jul 2012 01:21 |
Roy - it's true a medical professional delivering the child can perform an emergency baptism, as can the guy delivering the take-out chinese meal. In fact, anyone at all can. |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 6 Jul 2012 22:58 |
I remember my mother telling me that a neighbour's baby was hastily baptised immediately after birth by the delivering midwife. |
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kittykat1898 | Report | 6 Jul 2012 22:55 |
Thanks all. that would make sense as there is no other signs of the child on censuses and the like but i know it is the right parents. |
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+++DetEcTive+++ | Report | 6 Jul 2012 22:54 |
There are some records on Medway City Ark (can't recall exactly) where there the PR has a note stating that the child was baptised by Matron X at the X Laying in hospital. This is in the mid 1950s. |
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Porkie_Pie | Report | 6 Jul 2012 22:48 |
'private baptism'. Sometimes because a child was not expected to survive, |
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Gwyn in Kent | Report | 6 Jul 2012 22:45 |
Often this was carried out in haste for a sickly child, who might not be expected to live, although I have also seen it recorded for 'gentry' in a parish. |
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JustDinosaurJill | Report | 6 Jul 2012 22:41 |
Apparently it means privately baptised. No idea what is different about a private baptism or why it took place. I await the wisdom of the others for that one.J |
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kittykat1898 | Report | 6 Jul 2012 22:34 |
Does anyone know what PB means when entered in the margin next to a baptism entry? Thanks. :-S |