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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: reereeree on Wednesday 07 August 24 14:59 BST (UK)
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Hi there, I wonder if anyone has ever come across an entry of ‘H of N’ in the margin of a baptism record.
It appears many times on other baptisms but later is shortened to HN.
The record is from 1887 and the child it appears against died a few weeks after baptism from inanition.
Elizabeth Partington
Age 0
Birth Date 12 Aug 1887
Baptism Date 30 Aug 1887
Baptism Place Everton, St Chad with Christ Church, Lancashire, England
Father Samuel Partington
Mother Elizabeth Partington
Any thoughts?
Thank you :)
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Are you able to post a clip of the entry so people can see what you are looking at?
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You can see it on ancestry if you have a subscription.
Martin
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Are you able to post a clip of the entry so people can see what you are looking at?
Thank you, picture added 😀
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Thinking outside the box here - but could it actually be H of I - House of Industry.
Martin
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Not a definitive answer, but might it be "Hour of Need" - where the child is dangerously ill, and the minister has perhaps been called out in the middle of the night?
Thinking outside the box here - but could it actually be H of I - House of Industry.
There's a later entry (in another hand) where it's clearly H.N.:
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Hour of Need sounds very plausible. I thought that P for private covered that situation but maybe not.
Martin
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I'd agree with Hour of Need.
FreeBMD show a death registration in September quarter 1887 - West Derby RD (which would cover Everton) for Elizabeth Partington, aged 0.
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I'd agree with Hour of Need.
FreeBMD show a death registration in September quarter 1887 - West Derby RD (which would cover Everton) for Elizabeth Partington, aged 0.
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Hi, yes Elizabeth died on the 16th September 1887 at her home and was buried 3 days later in the Parochial Cemetery, Rice Lane, Walton, Liverpool. Thank you :-\
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Hour of Need sounds very plausible. I thought that P for private covered that situation but maybe not.
I thought so too, but maybe the 'P' ones weren't quite as ill. I looked for death registrations for some of the other 'H of N' ones and found a couple, but I didn't spend very long at it, or check for misspellings etc.
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This annotation only occurs where Edward A. Downman performed the ceremony. I suspect that only he knew what it meant.
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This annotation only occurs where Edward A. Downman performed the ceremony. I suspect that only he knew what it meant.
I thought that when I was looking the other day but there are further entries in 1888 by Walter Felton including others that are just H.N