In the 1830's a adult woman called Elizabeth Nichols traveled the length as well as breadth of England & Wales baptizing her immature lady inwards hundreds of unlike locations. The argue for this series baptism of her kid wasn't because Elizabeth Nichols was specially devout. It was because of the alms or outdoor relief that she received upon baptizing her child, the assistance which was given to her inwards the flat of food, coin or clothes.
You tin move thought where as well as when Elizabeth Nichols baptized her immature lady on the Serial Baptist interactive map. This map plots all the baptism records which direct keep been discovered where a adult woman named Elizabeth Nichols (or Eliza Nickols, Margret Nichols, Elizabeth Sanderson or whatever of the other pseudonyms the woman nurture used) baptized a kid (who was every bit good variously named, oftentimes Mary, Margaret or Elizabeth).
The carte du jour positioned at the overstep right-hand side of the map allows yous to thought the road taken inwards each twelvemonth past times Elizabeth Nichols every bit she traveled approximately the country. This patch isn't the actual road taken past times Elizabeth only is procedurally calculated past times connecting the baptism records. The road even as well as then does render a fascinating insight into the distances covered past times 1 itinerant traveler inwards the early on Nineteenth Century.
