What is the death (or is it buried) date on this record
I have found Christopher Jacobsen, son of Jacob Sveans on page 122 line 16 under year 1799 (left page, right column). Can someone confirm what the death date is? I think it is says the same as the ones before so I think it is 1 November from line 14. Also is this a death or burial date? Thanks!
https://media.digitalarkivet.no/view/16132/90
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Entry 14 is 1 November, entry 15 is 7 November. It says it is the same day as the previous entry so 7 November 1799.
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Burial date
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That is what I thought, but just want to double check. Thanks for confirming it.
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@Heidi Kjerengtroen So I know in the future how do you know if this is a burial or death date? Is there a certain word that tells you or do they only record burial dates back in the 1700's? Thanks!
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After date there is "begravn" which means buried. In many places in the early 1700's christenings/baptisms and burials were recorded because they were important in church life not births and deaths.
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To expand just a bit on Heidi's answer, a general rule of thumb in the Norwegian records of births and deaths is that if just one date is recorded it will always be the christening or the burial since these are church records recording clerical events. For many parishes, the recording of the corresponding birth or death death only started in 1816.
This leads to a bit of a problem in searching for death records prior to 1816. If someone died but there was no burial, such as when someone drowned at sea, there was no burial for the priest to record so he would not record anything and no death record will be found.
However, as Heidi stated, almost always the type of event in the record will be noted as in this example from Stord parish in 1810:
At the top of the page the column of boy's and girl's name is labeled "‘’Födde” (born) but the single date is followed by the term “Döpt” (christened).
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Only one date listed. 7 November 1799 (notice the 7 and then ditto for the month) was buried Svean age 0 (less than a year old) the son of Dr. Dreng (farmhand) Christopher Jacobss. (Jacobssen).
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You are probably already aware of this, but just for completeness, I'll add to my comments above that 1816 is an important date in that that is the year the parish registers went from being a blank book that the priest could format pretty much any way he wanted to a pre-printed register that all parishes were to use. For the first time, these registers required two bits of what we would view as key pieces of information in a birth record, the birth date and the mother's name.
For example from Stord in 1815:
and from Stord in 1816:
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