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Why is a child described as Mrs

RobertWakefield
RobertWakefield ✭
October 13, 2021 edited August 20, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

UK, England, Middlesex—Parish Registers, 1539–1988 [Part B][MSPD-TYY]

There are instances in this batch where a child is prefixed "Mrs" and also a "young gentlewoman" is pre-fixed "Mrs"; Is this a term of status? Should the term "Mrs" be indexed as the Deceased Prefix when the deceased is a child?

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  • MaureenE123
    MaureenE123 ✭✭✭✭✭
    October 13, 2021

    According to Wikipedia

    "Mrs originated as a contraction of the honorific Mistress (the feminine of Mister or Master) which was originally applied to both married and unmarried women."

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrs.

    As you have wondered, it is a term of status, so it is is the same as Miss, for a child from a higher status family.

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