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Title: Cod written at the end of Baptisimal Entry - What does this mean?
Post by: TheresaM on Monday 30 December 19 06:41 GMT (UK)
Hi Everyone,
Would anyone be able to clarify what  Cod:die written at the end of a 1743 Baptismal entry in the parish registers of the Isles of Scilly means?

The image of the entry from family search:-
Margt daughter of Malom Macfarling and Eliz his wife Cod :die

 Am hoping there is a happier explanation as I want this ancestor to survive because she would fit a missing piece of the family tree. :) 
Thank you
Theresa M 
Title: Re: Cod written at the end of Baptisimal Entry - What does this mean?
Post by: mckha489 on Monday 30 December 19 07:14 GMT (UK)
Can you please link to the image on Fam Search,  or at least tell us which image number it is.

Or just post a clip.
Title: Re: Cod written at the end of Baptisimal Entry - What does this mean?
Post by: Dundee on Monday 30 December 19 07:15 GMT (UK)
Just adding a link...

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HT-6F69-SHF

It is in place of the date so I would imagine it just means something like 'on the same day' (as the baptism before).

Debra  :D
Title: Re: Cod written at the end of Baptisimal Entry - What does this mean?
Post by: SelDen on Monday 30 December 19 07:32 GMT (UK)
It does look cod die - there is another instance (Joseph Woodcock) a couple of entries away. However I wondered if it could be eod die- an abbreviation of eodem diewhich does indeed mean the same day. Struggling to find another lower case e or c on the page to compare the two instances with, but I think Debra is right.
Title: Re: Cod written at the end of Baptisimal Entry - What does this mean?
Post by: trish1120 on Monday 30 December 19 08:35 GMT (UK)
Not sure what you have on Margarets Father but on this Bapt his occp is a Soldier;

Francis MCFARLING 20 Aug 1735 St Marys, Father Ma*m

+ Burial;
20 Jul 1781
Elizabeth MACKFARLING
Notes, Widow

Both on FreeREG

Trish :)
Title: Re: Cod written at the end of Baptisimal Entry - What does this mean?
Post by: JenB on Monday 30 December 19 08:55 GMT (UK)
As Dundee and SelDen have said it actually says eod[em] die, which simply means 'on the same day', i.e. her baptism took place on the same day as the previous entry.
Title: Re: Cod written at the end of Baptisimal Entry - What does this mean?
Post by: TheresaM on Monday 30 December 19 11:08 GMT (UK)
Thank you so much for solving that Dundee, SelDen and JenB  :). I was hoping COD wasnt "cause of death". Never thought it could be latin! Thank you also for adding the link for me Dundee . :)
 
Thank you Trish for the info on Francis Macfarlan. Malcom was married twice, so Margaret was Francis'  step sister.  I have been unable to find any information on Francis only that  he was witness at his sister Elizabeth's wedding to John Christie in Feb 1756.

Thank you again,
TheresaM