RE: [ranchos] information on records

[Irma GomezLucero <igomezlucero@...>]

I recall telling my mom & aunt about a family baptism record having the wrong information.  They  informed the same about the mother not attending her own child's baptism.  The mother stayed in bed, had chicken soup, and didn't bathe for 40 days!   It used to be the belief that a child needed to be baptized right away within a few days of birth.  Since the mother needed to "Guardar reposo" for 40 days, she was unable to attend the baptism.  The father did go with the godparents in our experience.  My father even had to hire someone to take care of my mother after my oldest sister's birth.  This lady cared for my mom, and their home during these 40 days which was a real financial drain on them at the time.  I guess he had to go to work, and couldn't care for her & the baby.  I met the elderly lady on my last visit to Mexico with my dad.    My mother only attended her children's baptisms when she immigrated to the U.S.

Irma

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From: Joseph Puentes [mailto:makas@...]
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 2:36 PM
To: ranchos@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [ranchos] information on records

so if the mother was in bed and the father was off doing war or 
work 
then no one for the family except the padrinos were there to tell the 
story. . .hmmmm, this makes good sense 
now.

thanks,

joseph

ps: where did you get the "Mothers were 
never at baptisms since the 
custom was for her to stay in bed for 40 days.. 
" information?


Erlinda Castanon-Long wrote:

>Many times 
information was being given by other members of the party 
>at the church 
who did not know who parents or grandparents were, 
>especially if the 
people were deceased or the family had moved.
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>Mothers were never 
at baptisms since the custom was for her to stay in 
>bed for 40 days.. 
that meant that someone else had to give her family 
>info and they were 
often wrong if there had been a remarriage after 
>the death of the first 
wife, her mother, for instance..
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>Linda from 
Wa.
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