Help with heading - please

[BumbleB]

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.

[BumbleB]

    It's "Seniority" isn't it?

[Ruskie]

  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)?

[Roger in Sussex]

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

[Ruskie]

Also, would that number mean, the fifth child, or the fifth son?

[BumbleB]

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  

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  )

[Ruskie]

'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'.