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Originally Posted by James18
Okay, here's a theory...
I know that children were often baptized together rather than individually, and I have a baptism record for three of my grandfather's brothers being baptized on the same day, despite being born a few years apart.
I found a baptism record for a Charlotte Ellen Smith here. What do we think to the idea that she was born Ellen Smith c1869, but was baptized - perhaps with some of her siblings - and given the name Charlotte in 1876?
That gives us the right name, the right location, and the right parents. |
If you search that database (taken from FamilySearch) for children of Thomas and Mary Smith in Reading, you will see that Annie Maria and Rose were baptised on the same day as Charlotte Ellen, so it does indeed look like the same family that I found on the censuses.