Problem understanding parish record dates

[lyall]

Help please! I have been trawling through parish records looking for a baptism record. I have eventually found it but am still in the dark as to when he was baptised as all the entries are not listed as dates i.e. January 13th, they are listed as Fifth Sunday after Advent or First Sunday after Epiphany and so on? I tried googling my date (Seventh Sunday after Trinity) but got no understandable answer. The nearest I got was that Trinity was 50 days after Pentecost, but I couldn’t find a date for Pentecost to count the 50 days? Ive never come across this sort of recording before, is it common am I likely to find more of it? Is there a site that lists the more common dates for these sort of religious dates?

[Buenchico]

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Chris

[sense4all]

http://www.maa.mhn.de...te/publ_holidays.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ydays/pentecost.shtml

if you use the first table to establish the date of Easter, then calculate Pentecost using info in second link, job's a good 'un!

[lyall]

Thank you both, i will have a go now.

[lyall]

Wow i'm in date heaven!

[dotty.]

I have never come across this type of baptism entry in any Church of England Parish Register, baptisms did not necessarily always take place on a sunday either. early registers, from 1538 were simply recorded by year and date, up until the seperated printed registers were introduced after 1812. From 1597 BT's (Bishops transcripts) were started with copies made for each quarter year. Was this baptism in perhaps an American register?

[lyall]

No Dotty not American. I located loads written this way in the Baptism registers for Owersby in Lincolnshire. These are available on line via the 'lincstothepast' web site run by Lincolnshire Archives. This is the linc to the actual page if you wish to look.

http://www.lincstothe...oid=630891&iid=303377

It took some finding to start with as whoever scanned the records in put the Baptism records under the Marriage records and vice versa!

Thanks to Buenchico and Sense4all and the links they posted I was able to find that Trinity Sunday in 1852 was on June 6th. My query now is does the first week of Trinity begin on this first Sunday, the 6th, or on the following Sunday? ie would the 7th Sunday of Trinity be the 18th July or 25th July?

[Alasala]

Pentecost is the 50th day after Easter, and is known as Whitsunday. As Easter moves every year, so do all the occasions based on times before and after Easter are different every year, as is common in religions. If you know the year, it is easy enough to find out when date was Easter for example and work out the other religious events from then.

In Western Christianity, Advent begins on the fourth Sunday prior to Christmas Day, or the Sunday which falls closest to November 30, and lasts through Christmas Eve, or December 24. When Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday, it is the last, or fourth Sunday of Advent.

So, the 5th Sunday after Advent would also be the 1st Sunday after Christmas...

Epiphany is traditionally 6th January so the first sunday after 6th Jan would be the First Sunday after Epiphany and so on.

Trinity Sunday is the 1st Sunday after the Pentecost, which as we know is 7 Sunday's after Easter... so the 7th Sunday after Trinity would be the 8th after Pentecost and the 15th after Easter.

So check the calendar to find out when Easter was for your relevant year, and count forward 15 weeks and you should have your answer!

[Alasala]

Pentecost is the 50th day after Easter, and is known as Whitsunday. As Easter moves every year, so do all the occasions based on times before and after Easter are different every year, as is common in religions. If you know the year, it is easy enough to find out when date was Easter for example and work out the other religious events from then.

In Western Christianity, Advent begins on the fourth Sunday prior to Christmas Day, or the Sunday which falls closest to November 30, and lasts through Christmas Eve, or December 24. When Christmas Eve falls on a Sunday, it is the last, or fourth Sunday of Advent.

So, the 5th Sunday after Advent would also be the 1st Sunday after Christmas...

Epiphany is traditionally 6th January so the first sunday after 6th Jan would be the First Sunday after Epiphany and so on.

Trinity Sunday is the 1st Sunday after the Pentecost, which as we know is 7 Sunday's after Easter... so the 7th Sunday after Trinity would be the 8th after Pentecost and the 15th after Easter.

So check the calendar to find out when Easter was for your relevant year, and count forward 15 weeks and you should have your answer!