Death or Baptismal records?
Hello,
This following batch looks like death records, but I would like others to confirm, so I will index correctly. Would you please let me know if the following batch are death or baptisms.
Thank you,
Patricia Livingston
UK, England, Lancashire—Nonconformist Church Records, 1647–1996 [Part B][MSGZ-1WD]
Answers
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So because of no heading, this can be difficult to distinguish if it's birth/baptism or death/bruial. I am seeing some latin words, Filius and Filia... which mean son and daughter. After each recorded name either filius or filia is recorded and then another name(s) is recorded. I believe this is baptism records. I have yet to see a record with only children being recorded for burial or death.
The 3rd record says "Ester daughter Abraham Hamer"
Try looking at the reference images to see if you can find any more clues as to what these records are. I am unable to look at your reference images.
If it were me I would index this as baptism, put the month and day as baptism date.
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The other images didn't lend any other clues, so I will index these as baptisms.
Thanks for your help.
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They look like burial records. I can not look at reference images but check reference image -4. I believe that is the one that says burial on the right hand page on the image.
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@P Livingston Definitely check your reference images for titles and years. I do see where it says burial on -4 image, but the image right before your batch and right after say Christening. Look at the very top of each image.
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Hello,
I wa told that they were baptisms, so I did index them that way. At the second to the last one, it did appear to me to be a death. However, I dd index them as baptisms and submitted them as such. not sure if I can do anything about it now.
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