Celeste, my father changed his middle name in adolescence (sigh), so I can empathize.
Mary Ann, I suspect most if not all babies born in the US in the early 1900s (including my parents, uncles and aunt) still had home births. Either the baby was then hauled to the church for baptism, or in dire cases -- like my aunt, who was not expected to survive, although the disagreeable old bat wound up making it to nearly 95, no doubt out of sheer cussedness! -- a clergyman made a housecall to perform the task. Or, in my mother's case, since her parents were "free thinkers," I'm not sure she was baptized until she was a schoolgirl who attended church on her own. Katharine. -- To unsubscribe from this group, send email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. Follow the confirmation directions when they arrive. For more options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership."
