Sunday, 27 December 2015

Boxing Day 1949

This was a while ago!


Posted by Scriptor Senex at 09:02

13 comments:

  1. messymimi27 December 2015 at 13:33

    So you were baptized on Boxing Day! Your certificate is beautiful. My baptismal certificate is not nearly so ornate and pretty.

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  2. Tabor27 December 2015 at 13:54

    You were born on Boxing Day? Great expressions on both in that photo above.

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    1. Scriptor Senex27 December 2015 at 15:07

      No, Tabor, I was Christened on Boxing Day. I was born the previous October so I was two months old in that photo.

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  3. Graham Edwards27 December 2015 at 14:41

    Thanks for that CJ. I was looking at that photo recently and wondering which of us it was. Now I know. I still have a load of the old documents too. When you think that Cyril Dunsby baptised and was at my confirmation it makes one realise how long he served at St David's.

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    1. Scriptor Senex27 December 2015 at 15:09

      Did you read the bit at the bottom about the 'vulgar tongue', GB? Could explain why I swear more than you!

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    2. Graham Edwards28 December 2015 at 21:42

      Well, well, well. Your comment made me delve into the archives and retrieve my certificate to see if it had the same wording. In fact it is an identical certificate. However I wasn't baptised by Cyril Dunsby but by The Rev Eric Smith. I don't remember him but then as I was baptised at less than a month old that's hardly surprising.

      By the way I don't ever recall you swearing very much. FWKTM did point out to me that that she was impressed by the fact that I never blasphemed as all my swear words involved (non-sexual) bodily functions.

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  4. DawnTreader27 December 2015 at 17:25

    I have a photo of the event, but no document like that.

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  5. Librarian28 December 2015 at 06:16

    What a beautifully made document! My certificate is just an ordinary piece of paper, a sober form filled in with the kind of typewriter that was widely used back then. I was born in March 1968 and christened nearly two years later, on December 6th, 1969.

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  6. Helen28 December 2015 at 09:39

    Lovely photo - I don't recall seeing that one before.

    Are sponsors the same as Godparents?

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    1. Scriptor Senex28 December 2015 at 11:41

      I suspect sponsors are the same though I've never actually heard the term. Perhaps it is used in different churches?

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    2. Graham Edwards28 December 2015 at 21:45

      Yes Helen sponsors are the same. I'm not sure if the term is used in the C of E but it is in the RC faith.

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    3. Graham Edwards28 December 2015 at 21:47

      I've just looked it up. The C of E does use the term for Godparent too.

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    4. Helen29 December 2015 at 09:09

      Thanks GB.

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