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Myhrecharlie
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Canada
140 Posts |
 Posted - 22/10/2019 : 15:22:54
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Birth of Even #2 on right side
(https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/9084/86474/349)
Parents Guldbrand Jorgensen (Gaalaas) and Marthe Olsdatter
Entry starts Dom. 3 Trinity which I take to mean the 3rd. Sunday after
Trinity 1778. I calculate this entry made July 5,1778.
Were births or baptisms only recorded on Sundays
Am I missing something? |
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AntonH
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
9216 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2019 : 16:55:46
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Here is how Ancestry transcribed the record
Even Gulbrandsen
in the Norway, Select Baptisms, 1634-1927
Name: Even Gulbrandsen
Gender: Male
Baptism Date: 5 jul 1778
Baptism Place: , Nes , Hedmark, Norway
Father: Gulbrand Jorgensen
Mother: Marthe Olsdr
FHL Film Number: 124296
Here from Family Search is an article including baptism.
Family Search |
Edited by - AntonH on 22/10/2019 17:05:36 |
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Myhrecharlie
Medium member
Canada
140 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2019 : 17:06:34
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Thanks I’m not on Ancestry but it looks like Baptism July 5,1778
Is correct. I guess that will have to do for my records.
Some of the different parish records list both birth and
baptism. |
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jkmarler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 22/10/2019 : 17:22:48
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| FYI the first reason for these records is the recordation of a religious process baptism. As the government came to realize that at the same time they could record other items which might also be of interest to the government's function then things like actual birth date, record of vaccinations etc. could also be attempted. That was a process through time, not because they just didn't want to record birth dates, etc. |
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Myhrecharlie
Medium member
Canada
140 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2019 : 18:00:04
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Thanks for the info I understand the way events were recorded.
I was mainly wondering if my method of tracing the baptism date
was correct. |
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ToreL
Advanced member
Norway
818 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2019 : 18:27:08
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The Family Search article is based on Store Norske leksikon, but the translation is misleading. The original says that
på 1800-tallet ble barna gjerne døpt 1–3 dager etter fødselen.
The Norwegian adverb gjerne means that something was not unheard of, or even that it happened often, but it does absolutely not mean that something usually happened, and Family Search's claim that
in the 1800s an infant was usually baptized within 1-3 days after the birth
is just wrong. Opening a random church book page from 1841, I found that none of the baptisms on the page were that prompt. What Family Search does get right, however, is that a law from 1687 (abolished in 1771) required every child to be baptised within eight days of their birth, and in 1778, just seven years after the law went obsolete, the intervals between birth and baptism were probably much shorter than most of those on the 1841 church book page above. |
Edited by - ToreL on 22/10/2019 18:31:21 |
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Myhrecharlie
Medium member
Canada
140 Posts |
Posted - 22/10/2019 : 19:02:18
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Thanks ToreL. by looking at your 1841 random church book page it appears the baptisms were recorded every Sunday when actual births could be up to a month previous.
This answers my original question of the baptisms being recorded in the church books on Sundays. |
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Dating Nes Parish Hedmark Birth Records1778
