Death record shows Christen Johnsen was 1 year old, so birth record should be in the previous year+,
The burial record is on this page, near the bottom of the right hand column. I think it says Christen Johns. Leum, 1 year. I infer that the burial date is 18 January 1756 from the previous records. I looked through all the 1754 and 1755 births, and can't find him. What am I missing?
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/9271/44940/56
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The birth records for Øyer for the 1750's have been indexed by FamilySearch. I can easily find christening records on the same page as Chrisen's burial record in the index, but not one for Christen searching by his name, father's name, first initials with wildcards in various forms. I think you have to assume that his christening was never recorded.
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Isn't it unusual for the christening record to not be recorded? All the other children have a record. I looked through the original scans and couldn't find anything there either. Just puzzled by this.
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Yes, it is very unusual but I have seen it on rare occasions. I would wonder, since he died at a year of age, if maybe he was sickly from the very start, had a home baptism, and either no one got around to telling the priest about it or the priest was told and forgot to write it down. Or maybe if you never were strong enough to get to church to have a home baptism ratified or confirmed, the home event was never written down.
I read an article once about the accuracy of Norwegian parish records and something very fascinating the author mentioned was that if a priest served at more than one church, the parish register would be left at his office and he would make notations of events on scrapes of paper then transfer these to the register when he got home. Occasionally these pieces of paper would get lost.
Currently I'm working through the parish registers for Stord for the 1880s line by line as a way of doing descendancy research on my wife's lines and have found a small handful of birth record that are just in the Ministerialbok or the Klokkerbok but not both as they should be. These priests and clerks were just people and like all of us, occasionally made mistakes.
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One other reason I have run across and forgot to mention for not being able to find a birth record where you think it should be is that occasionally a family would have a child baptized in a neighboring parish for some reason and the event never got recorded in their home parish.
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