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Posted by jack29p (U1877186) on Wednesday, 5th October 2011
Hi all
I am researching the Oakes family of Kidderminster. Found a Thomas Oakes on the IGI with 2 baptisms both on the same date 7 Nov 1754, one at the local parish church St Marys and then on the Non Conformist Registers at the Old Meeting House, Kidderminster. Both the same parents John and Sarah and both extracted records
Has anyone ever come across this before
Meeting House suggests Quaker Faith but they did not beleive in baptism what they did was record the birth which had to be witnessed by two quaker members.
I cant explain why the Parish Church one Jackie
There is a site for quaker records to do a free search but to see the document it will cost.
I found someone very obliging on RC who checked them for me and sent them to me.
Edna
Its not a Quaker church, but a Protestant Dissenters Church Edna, I have just checked that out. The son Thomas also baptised some of his children alternately it appears in both, but I havent yet found a duplicated entry like this
It might be tied up with the Hardwicke Act of 1754 requiring everyone, except Jews and Quakers, to be married in a civil church, in an effort to stop clandestine marriages.
I think that BMBs still had to take place in the C of E. If that does not apply to baptisms, maybe one side of the family was C of E and the other was a Dissenting family.
Raunds I think you are probably right about the parents being of different denominations although the couple would have had to have paid for both baptisms I assume and as they seem of quite moderate means this would have been an outlay for them
Thanks everyone for their input
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