{"id":1171,"date":"2010-12-22T11:51:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-22T11:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/history.onclick.co.uk\/wordpress\/?page_id=1171"},"modified":"2011-03-23T10:57:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-23T10:57:21","slug":"baptisms","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1171","title":{"rendered":"Baptisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/baptismpic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-990\" style=\"border: 12px solid #d8e9da; margin: 5px; padding: 5px;\" title=\"baptismpic\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/baptismpic.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"343\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/baptismpic.jpg 220w, https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/media_library\/baptismpic-192x300.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>We have 14,852 baptisms that were registered at St Michael &amp; All  Angels Church and the Independent Chapel between 1559 and 1903. The most  popular names have been for girls Mary (1251), Ann\/Anne\/Annie (1094)  and Elizabeth\/Elisabeth (1292). While the most popular boys names have  been John (1517), Thomas(1032) and William (1248).<\/p>\n<p>There have been some unusual names: from Amigell (boy) and Averine (girl) to Xpofer [= Christopher] and Zebulon (both boys).<\/p>\n<p>We can wonder whether Genteela, Godly, Merry and Temperance lived up  to their names and whether Repent and Repentance managed to live theirs  down. Between 1668 and 1846 Philadephia made an appearance, but was  quite thinly spread.<\/p>\n<p>Our thanks go to Eunice Doswell and Cathy Goodwin for the mammoth  task of transcribing these baptisms from film of the original records  supplied by the Kent Family History Society.<\/p>\n<p>You can search the baptism indexes and if you find the person you are  looking for, we may be able to supply you with further details.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=122\">Search the archives for your ancestors&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We have 14,852 baptisms that were registered at St Michael &amp; All Angels Church and the Independent Chapel between 1559 and 1903. The most popular names have been for girls Mary (1251), Ann\/Anne\/Annie (1094) and Elizabeth\/Elisabeth (1292). While the most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/?page_id=1171\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":20,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1171","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1171\/revisions\/1865"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mardenhistory.org.uk\/home\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}