I am needing help deciphering a 1723 baptism record and not understanding the date used.
Robt Clark was born in Kegworth, Leicestershire, England. The christening date indexed is 26 Dec 1723 but to me it looks like 26 Oct. Is there something I don't know about the early England date?
Thanks, Elaine
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@EVollmer1 EVollmer1
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FYI
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As an aside ...
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Here is some 'light reading' regarding the former Julian Calendar; and, the later (current) Gregorian Calendar ...
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Julian calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_calendar
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Gregorian calendar
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar
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The Gregorian calendar was not adopted in Britain until 1752
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1752 (MDCCLII) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1752nd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 752nd year of the 2nd millennium, the 52nd year of the 18th century, and the 3rd year of the 1750s decade. As of the start of 1752, the Gregorian calendar was 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923.
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In the British Empire, it was the only year with 355 days, as 3–13 September were skipped when the Empire adopted the Gregorian calendar.
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1752
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1752
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During the 'transition', often, you see a two (x2) 'Date' standard.
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Brett
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It's an abbreviation - 10'ber for December. I have to say that I don't remember seeing this before in the Church of England! It's not to do with the old calendar, it's all about the names of the months (though they were derived in a different calendar).
September is the 7th month in Latin, hence 7'ber
October is the 8th month in Latin (compare to Octagon with 8 sides) so 8'ber
November is the 9th, so 9'ber
December is the 10th, so 10'ber
You can check this out by examining the other dates - the months go from August to 7'ber instead of September and from 10'ber (ie December) to January. Fortunately there's enough months named to be certain. Checking elsewhere on the page for clues is always important. But very interesting!
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If you look in Wikipedia at the names of the months, the names like "December" were named orginally in the Roman Calendar where that was the 10th month - hence the name (compare words like decimal and decade). I didn't check how many months there were or when that calendar started.
September was the 7th month. August was the 6th month and we'd probably call it "Sextember" or maybe "Sextilis" were it not for Emperor Augustus deciding that he'd like part of the calendar to be named after him. As you do...
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