Baptismal customs

[Karen Norwillo]

In researching family on Genline, I noticed that on baptimal records, there were most often 3 sets of sponsors or Godparents. Was that usual? We usually only have 1 set of Godparents.  
Karen

[Eva Leksell]

The most common custom was to have two sets of sponsors: a married man, a married woman, an unmarried man and an unmarried woman. In higher social classes there were often more than four sponsors.

[Karen Norwillo]

Eva,
  Thank you. I noticed on alot of the records there were two sets of married couples and one set of unmarried. That surprised me. Karen