I am indexing a Catholic Parish register. It appears to be burials. Only one name with each entry.
Some names have mort dues after the name but others have the word, rem, which I have not seen in a record before. I am thinking I should index them as burials but am not sure because I don't know what rem means. The batch is Ireland, Galway—Church Records, 1740–1880 [Part C][MQZH-D1N]. Is anyone familiar with this type of record.
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@Vona Williams -- The right-hand column appears to me to be money charged for services provided so I would index as follows and ignore the terms Mort deus (latin) and rem could be remembrance or funeral.
Burial Date: 8 Dec 1844 Deceased given name: Andrew Surname: Thornton , other indexed info <blank> .
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This looks to me like an account ledger: I don't think any of these people were buried. They paid the cemetery on those dates, and "rem" is short for some word to do with "remit" (remitted, remittance). I think "Mort. dues" is also purely English, "mortuary dues" or something like that. (It definitely says "dues", not "Deus".)
Unfortunately, the film in question is not online outside of the indexing tool, and shared batches don't have reference images, so I can't go back a few pages to see if the nature of this record is identified, but I wouldn't assume burials without further checking.
(I've encountered Communion donations indexed as burials. It was ...disconcerting to find the unfortunate sexton buried yearly for a decade or more.)
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That register is online on 3 other sites, but the way the registers are labeled and separated in FS indexing makes it a bit of a chore to find on the other 3 websites. The parish is St Nicholas North and East, Galway city: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634216#page/1/mode/1up and 1844 is on Page 119: https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634216#page/119/mode/1up
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I was wrong, it is "remembrance", not remit-anything, but I was also partly right, in that it's not burials as such. All the way back on page 89 (https://registers.nli.ie/registers/vtls000634216#page/89/mode/1up) there's a notation: "total of Mortuary dues and Remembrance Masses for the year 1818". (I believe that a remembrance Mass could be requested for example on the anniversary of a person's death, and not just once, right?)
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@Julia Szent-Györgyi and @Áine Ní Donnghaile -Wow, thank you both for your excellent help I always learn from both of you. @Vona Williams So this batch would be marked NNED no extractable data, correct? 😎
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Yes, about Remembrance Masses being on the anniversary of death. For a priest or bishop, or a wealthy parishioner, you'll sometimes find entries every month for the first year (a month's mind) and then once/year after (a year's mind).
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