Wot? No parents at baptism?

[British Viking]

Not sure if this person is one of my family members but I've noticed:

Baptism: Edith Moller November 20th 1888 in parish of St Philips, Clerkenwell, London. She the only one on this spread whose parents are not listed.

Anybody care to haphazard a guess as to why this was so? Is this unusual? I mean, surely, at least the vicar who did the baptising must have had some sort of inkling and would have recorded something to that effect?

[Dargie]

Not sure if this is relevant but there was an Edith Maude Moller born March qtr 1886 St Saviour. That would make her aged 2 at Baptism if this is the corect Edith.

Parents deceased possibly? A relative in charge. A foster arrangement, parents not known?

[Nicolina]

the 1901 Census (RG13/193/55 Page 6) lists:
294, Upper Street, Islington

Christian MOLLER aged 44, British Subject born Denmark. occ: Clockmaker
Helen MOLLER aged 47, born Milborne Port, Somerset
Nanna MOLLERaged 23, born Clerkenwell, London
Clara MOLLER aged 21, born Holloway, London occ: Watchmaker's Assistant
Mark MOLLER aged 18, born Holloway, London occ: Watchmaker's Assistant
Edith MOLLER aged 15, born Newington, London occ: Swivel Carder

[Nicolina]

in 1881 FMP has them transcribed as MILLER and Christian has become Christiana born Copenhagen !!!!!!!!!!!!!
RG12/120 /19 Page 33
65, Warren Street, St Pancras

[Nicolina]

forgot to add, on the 1881 Census Mark has the middle name Hans, whilst Nanna is staying with her uncle Axel, his wife Bessie and family.
RG12/89/16 Page 25
43, Rathbone Place, St Marylebone

[Nicolina]

Marriages:

Dec 1876 Holborn 1b 1111 Christian MOLLER and Helen BROWN
Jun 1889 Kensington 1a 325 Axel Hother MOLLER and (probably) Elizabeth LONG (other female on page called Isabella WATSON)

[Geoffers]

See the above replies, also.......

Baptism: Edith Moller November 20th 1888 in parish of St Philips, Clerkenwell, London. She the only one on this spread whose parents are not listed.

Anybody care to haphazard a guess as to why this was so?

Possibly an adult baptism? The oldest of these I've found so far (not in London though) is for someone aged 76, baptised a few days before burial.

[Peter Goodey]

Anybody care to haphazard a guess as to why this was so?

Paper work in a mess?

[janbooth]

From Ancestry London Parish Registers:

19 July 1908 at St Mary Lewisham Mark MOLLER, 25, Bachelor, Pressman, 35 Upper St Islington, father Christian MOLLER, Clockmaker & Florence Edith FENSOM, 22, Spinster, 48 Mt Pleasant Road, father Henry William FENSOM, Decd

7 December 1916 at St Peter Deptford Arthur Christian MOLLER, 29, Bachelor, Captain, 73 Brockspears Road, father Christian MOLLER, Deceased & Jessie Louise CHAPPELL, 26, Spinster, 251 Lewisham High Road, father John CHAPPELL, Undertaker

Janet

[janbooth]

The address on Edith's baptism is shown as 5 Wilmington Place, Clerkenwell and the MOLLER family are in Clerkenwell in the 1881 census living at 48 Compton Buildings. By the 1891 census the family have moved to 65 Warren Street, St Pancras.

Edith & Clara MOLLER are still unmarried in 1911, both parents still alive and are back in Clerkenwell. There is a death registration in the June qtr 1913 at Holborn reg district of a Christian MOLLER, aged 57 which fits in pretty well.

Janet