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Blackburn—Church of England Parish Registers, what does Idsum? mean for baptism date

SueWray
SueWray ✭
February 7 edited February 7 in Indexing

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  • SueWray
    SueWray ✭
    February 7

    What does Idsum? mean as the baptism date does it mean same as birth date?

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  • genthusiast
    genthusiast ✭✭✭✭
    February 7 edited February 7

    Idem - Latin for 'the same' - basically a ditto - meaning same date as the record above.

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

    @annewandering

    'idem' - masculine/ 'eadem' - feminine (according to the wiki above)

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  • annewandering
    annewandering ✭✭✭✭
    February 7
    Could it be 'eadem' which is latin for ditto? 
    


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  • SueWray
    SueWray ✭
    February 8

    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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  • Melissa S Himes
    Melissa S Himes ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 8

    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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  • SueWray
    SueWray ✭
    February 8

    Thanks Melissa, just sat down for a cuppa and all clicked, ditto down not across, makes all sense now.

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