Bio after merge Help

Question

I merged two profiles this morning. The links to Family Search were bad. I found some sources including a family tree for the individual on FamilySearch.

I added the sources I found and tried to ʻfixʻ the Bio, but I am stuck trying to make the profile look nice and link properly.

There is an issue, that may not be a problem (I donʻt know). There is a date of death record for the individual. There are also baptism records showing the same date for four children. Would that have been a common thing, to get the children baptized when a parent dies or is buried?

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I removed an extra ref tag.

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Thank you, I cleaned it during the merge, but couldn't fix it!

Answer 1

Off the top of my head, for what it's worth, I have seen instances of group baptisms of a "backlog" of children in North America in Fairfield Co., CT in 1700s, in New London Co., CT in 1700s, in Queens Co., NY in 1700s, and in Albany Co., NY in the 1800s. In the last case, it was indeed just after the children's mother had died. The circumstances of the other sets of baptisms are not as clear.

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I believe in areas where the preacher was on circuit and only visited places maybe once a year (or even less in some truly remote places), folk would save up their baptisms for those visits -- and often their marryings, too.  So you might have a couple front up with a slew of kids, get married, and bulk baptise the lot.  Other times, they might "make use" of a different denomination's preacher if that circuit ran a different time frame.

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I have seen that in rural America. I have seen questions here saying "those parents are not correct, the marriage date is after the birthdates".

Answer 2

The parish register shows four children baptized on May 5, 1850.  England, Warwickshire, Parish Registers, 1535-1963; https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6SK7-3HH?cc=1462403&wc=XD9S-HZ9%3A42645501%2C1583865806%2C1583874202

Perhaps this was her dying wish.