Please confirm a christening date and record

KathyLove3

Easy one! Searching for one child, I think I found twins again. Must be something in the water in Saltdal.

https://media.digitalarkivet.no/en/view/16617/31

Just after Dom. Exaudi, 7 May 1758, Ole Willumsen Rockland's Kristen and Malena. What date would "Feria" be-May 11?

Thanks so much

Gordon Collett

As Liv said, Feria or Festum is a non-Sunday religious holiday, in the original sense of Holy Day.

I'll post here again my favorite Sunday and Feast Day Calendar: https://dinslekt.no/helligdager.php

What I will do if I'm not sure of what a date says, is find days I can read, such as you could read Dominica Exaudi, then trace forward or back on the named days to figure out what I can't read. Here is a section following Dominica Exaudi (AKA the 6th Sunday after Easter):

The following Sunday is Pentecost. The Sunday after that is Trinity Sunday. Between these are two non-Sunday feast days: 2nd and 3rd Pentecost. (They really knew how to celebrate in the past. Three days for Easter, three days for Pentecost, and three days for Christmas.)

Looking back at your record, you can now more easily see that it says: Feria 1ma Pentecostes (the number 1 followed by "ma" is a way to write "first." The current way to write "first" is 1 with a period after it as in the chart. So your date is the first day of Pentecost or Sunday, May 14.

What I can't explain is why it is not written Dominica 1ma Pentecostes since it is on a Sunday. That is just how it was. On this page: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20071119650084 you can see christenings on 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Pentecost and all three are Feria, even though the first one is on Sunday. And the following Sunday, Trinity Sunday, is also listed as Festum Trinitas, not Dominica Trinitas. Clearly there is is fine point to how these Sundays were named that I'm not familiar with.

Liv Anderson2

Dom. Dominica means Sunday.

Feria mean any other day (not a Sunday) May 11 1758 does not fall on a Sunday in 1758.

KathyLove3

Thank you again, Gordon. Yes, I was confused because the register didn't quite match the calendar.