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

SueWray
SueWray ✭
February 7, 2022 edited February 7, 2022 in Indexing

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  • SueWray
    SueWray ✭
    February 7, 2022

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

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  • genthusiast
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    February 7, 2022 edited February 8, 2022

    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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  • SusanMullenPelton
    SusanMullenPelton ✭✭✭✭✭
    February 7, 2022
    Could it be 'eadem' which is latin for ditto? 
    


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  • SueWray
    SueWray ✭
    February 8, 2022

    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, 2022

    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, 2022

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

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