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Baptismal name
A friend ( who usually knows what he is talking about!), told me recently that he recalled having read about an instance where a baby was baptised with a forename name which was different from that on the birth certificate, and that as a result, the registrar had to amend the birth certificate.
I've Googled, and this doesn't seem possible with C of E baptims - but is there a mechanism for this to happen in other religions? Also, do the parents have to produce a birth certificate when a baby is baptised? If not, and if the baby is baptised before the birth is registered, does the registration have to be in the baptismal name ? Thanks Last edited by Muggins in Sussex; 29-12-11 at 16:06. |
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This is from the certificate tutorials website regarding column 10 on a birth cert:
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Merry "Something has been filled in that I didn't know was blank" Matthew Broderick WDYTYA? March 2010 |
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Thanks Merry - that's very interesting
Do you think that " because baptism was in place before civil registration and was considered more important - then the facility was given to change the first names (but NOT the surname)" means that the facility was given to the registrar? - Also does anyone know what this bit means -" that the name used by the child will not match the indexes, which are amended if a space 10 correction is made" ? |
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Thank you, Kite
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My father was born in September 1918 and registered as James Wilton. However when he was christened in November 1918 the vicar added Victor as a middle name to his baptism entry. His birth certificate was never altered and my dad hated the name Victor which he did not use.
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Someone in my tree in the 1880s was registered with one set of names. Column 10 gives a completely different set of names, from when the father's family took her away from her mother, who was by that time "seeing" someone else.
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And did you know that you cannot legally change your baptismal name, at least as far as the church is concerned. If you were baptised Ermyntrude, then Ermyntrude you are till you die. (Officially - but they can't stop your friends calling you Bubbles, or whatever!)
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I know that I was baptised (my non-church parents did it under the watchful eye of his aunt) but I have not the foggiest idea where.
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OH's granny was furious with her husband for forgetting the name they had agreed on and registering his daughter as Betty in 1927. She was later baptised as Beryl as her mother wished and was known as this all her life, but married as Betty. Beryl is the name which appears in the burial register at the church where her ashes are interred.
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