Blackburn—Church of England Parish Registers, what does Idsum? mean for baptism date
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What does Idsum? mean as the baptism date does it mean same as birth date?
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Idem - Latin for 'the same' - basically a ditto - meaning same date as the record above.
'idem' - masculine/ 'eadem' - feminine (according to the wiki above)
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Could it be 'eadem' which is latin for ditto?
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Thanks all, thought it was latin, but I was not sure of the spelling.
So I can assume it means that the baptism date is the same as the birth date and I can enter this date in the baptism date fields.
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The ditto is the baptism date from the first row (April 25, 1901). The babies would have all been baptized on the same day, not the day they were born.
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Thanks Melissa, just sat down for a cuppa and all clicked, ditto down not across, makes all sense now.
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