What year is this please?

[Vasquez109]

Does anyone have the eyesight to read what the year is here? Also, does it say born or is it some shorthand for buried?

David.

[CaroleW]

George  the son of George Thomas born 19th February 1718

[Hollander]

Hi Vasquez.

Think it reads 'born thee (sic) 19th of February 1718.

[Vasquez109]

Firstly...I may sound stupid, but what is (sic) and what is that word at the end?

I thought, although the year at the top of the page says 1716, the year was 1718/4...

[CaroleW]

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[Greensleeves]

sic indicates that something is written possibly incorrectly, but that you have copied it as written.  So if I wrote Sepdtember in a document you might copy it and write (sic) after it to show that it was my mistake and not yours!  Hope that makes sense - it's getting late.... or early...!

[slam]

Could it be '1718/19'?  You know how until 1752  they used to start the official new year on March 25, so that if something happened in the early months of 1719 it would still be happening in 1718, legally?  It always does my head in.  I have to admit though the '9' of '19th' has a longer tail than anything visible on this little subscript figure.

I thought the word at the end looked like 'feisted'. Then I thought perhaps it was 'feiste d..' and I thought perhaps it meant 'feast day'. But then I wondered if it meant 'fast day', which sometimes happened in times of trouble - the authorities proclaimed an official day of fasting and prayer?  Perhaps they were recording that this particular 19th February was a Fast Day.

[BridgetM]

I also saw it as 1718/19.

[Geoff-E]

I also saw it as 1718/19.

So did I.