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Title: Help with heading - please
Post by: BumbleB on Sunday 30 September 12 14:54 BST (UK)
I'm hoping that someone may be able to read the first word of this heading - it's from the baptism records for St John the Evangelist in Baildon in 1798 - one of four versions currently on Ancestry, two of them being typed transcriptions and the other doesn't include the headings or the first column entries.

I do have the transcription issued by Wharfedale Family History Group, and this indicates that the first column shows the place within the family of the person being baptised - i.e. William, son of Joseph Heaton is the 5th child in the family and Sarah is the 5th child of John Bradley.   :-\  WFHG show the same sort of information right up until the end 1812.

My reason for asking this question is that I have Aaron Crabtree, baptised in 1798 and the figure in the first column is 10, but if that is so then there are a number of children not being baptised!!!!

Any help gratefully accepted.



Title: Re: Help with heading - please
Post by: BumbleB on Sunday 30 September 12 14:55 BST (UK)
 :-[ :-[ :-[ :-[  It's "Seniority" isn't it?

Title: Re: Help with heading - please
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 30 September 12 15:03 BST (UK)
:-[ :-[ :-[ :-[  It's "Seniority" isn't it?



Looks right, and sounds right in the context.

Aaron may have been the 10th child, but perhaps some of the others died soon after birth (unbaptised)?
Title: Re: Help with heading - please
Post by: Roger in Sussex on Sunday 30 September 12 15:05 BST (UK)
Agree it looks like Seniority, or perhaps seniority with a long  s as first letter not fully visible on the copy.

Could it be that Aaron Crabtree's first nine children were baptised in a different church?

Roger
Title: Re: Help with heading - please
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 30 September 12 15:10 BST (UK)
Also, would that number mean, the fifth child, or the fifth son?
Title: Re: Help with heading - please
Post by: BumbleB on Sunday 30 September 12 15:15 BST (UK)
Many thanks.  It might well be possible that other children either died or were baptised elsewhere, there are certainly a few gaps prior to Aaron's baptism - he being baptised in 1798 and the marriage taking place in 1776 and the first child the same year!!!  And I'm obviously having a senior moment  :-X

Ruskie:  it's been interpreted by WFHG as "Child" and I'm hoping that it is so - if not then Aaron would be the 10th son (although saying that, I have only found male children for the parents  :o )

Title: Re: Help with heading - please
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 30 September 12 15:21 BST (UK)
'child' is likely to be correct then. I am thinking of some of my Durham records which give helpful details like 'second son of', or 'fourth daughter of'.