What is "churchings"

Usage examples of "churchings".

My mother used to file them for me to answer — one heap of charity appeals, another for personal letters, another for marriages and funerals, another for baptisms and churchings, and another for anonymous abuse.

Sliverstone's labours last week - what with the buryings, marryings, churchings, christenings, and all together, - that when he was going up the pulpit stairs on Sunday evening, he was obliged to hold on by the rails, or he would certainly have fallen over into his own pew.