question about birth order on records
When birth order is included on a record, if the mother has been married previously and had children, are the children from that first marriage included in the birth order of the 2nd marriage?
Commenti
-
I think it depends on the type of document you're talking about. In a Familienregister, the entries are sorted by the husband. So it would list the children of the second husband and the wife, with a notation that the wife's children from the previous marriage could be found at the page for the first husband.
In a baptism register, births are listed sequentially (illegitimate births may be listed at the end of the register sometimes), generally with no mention of previous relationships and resulting births.
In a will or land transfer, it's quite possible that children from a previous marriage will be noted.
1 -
Thank you so much!
0