Half Baptised?

[Joan of Archives]

http://search.ancestry.co.uk/iexec?htx=View&r=5538&dbid=1558&iid=31280_197606-00139&fn=George+Thomas&ln=Bryant&st=r&ssrc=&pid=4313253

George Bryant

Can anyone explain how a child is half baptised? If it his top or bottom half? Lol!! :d

[Merry]

It's another way of saying 'privately baptised' (ie at home)

[anne fraser]

I think it was usually an emergency baptism at home for a child who was not expected to live so it could be buried in consecrated ground. It did not involve godparents.

[Joan of Archives]

Ooooo that's interesting, thanks. It appears he lived long enough to grow up & get married though :)

[kiterunner]

The entry on the register is for the date when he was received into the church as it says in the note "... and received as above".