1841 Lancs Non conformist burial records
- I'm also indexing the same batch. I don't know how to make sense of the age - what does the number before the / mean? Usually either number 8, 10 or 12, followed by / , then the age in months or years?
https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/ed56b338-1ffa-4700-b18d-87dda50e906c
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Hi Ruth. I was waiting to see if someone would answer before I jumped in with my opinion on this batch. I think the numbers 8/10/12 might be fees for burials. They seem pretty consistently in line with the ages of folks - 8 being the youngest, 10 being toddlers, and 12 being adults. I would ignore those numbers and just index the ages following the slash mark.
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The number in front is likely the month the person was born in. However anything we might surmise would be a guess so best to just ignore those numbers before t he /. The researcher will see them and can decide for themselves what they mean.
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I don't think it can be the month they were born in because the first two died in July and both had an 8 next to their age, although they were 6 months old and 9 months old. Definitely an interesting document which might be in a church cemetery with the same minister and consecutive burials in the same rows or the same grave site? Always mysteries to discover in these old records.
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