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What does DNP mean?
« Reply #18 on: Tuesday 06 February 24 13:35 GMT (UK) »
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I've been puzzling over what the abbreviation that looks like DNP means, as in the attached screenshot.

I have considered various ideas including DVP for 'decessit vivendo patre' i.e. died during its father's lifetime; something to do with vaccination; and simply 'Did Not Pay' but every baptism on the page is annotated with it, and I can't believe that none of the parents paid if they were supposed to.

Any other ideas?

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Re: What does DNP mean?
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Re: What does DNP mean?
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 06 February 24 14:31 GMT (UK) »
Could it be simply the minister's initials?

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Re: What does DNP mean?
« Reply #21 on: Tuesday 06 February 24 14:36 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: martin hooper on Tuesday 06 February 24 14:31 GMT (UK)
Could it be simply the minister's initials?

That was my thinking but haven't yet found a minister to match up with the initials!
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Re: What does DNP mean?
« Reply #22 on: Tuesday 06 February 24 14:42 GMT (UK) »
Confound it! I had completely forgotten that I'd already asked the same question. My profound apologies to all.

I have asked the moderator to amalgamate the threads.
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Re: What does DNP mean?
« Reply #23 on: Tuesday 06 February 24 20:51 GMT (UK) »
Compare what you think as is an "n" and the Spelling of the various "Airdrie(s)" especially the second "r".

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Re: What does DNP mean?
« Reply #24 on: Tuesday 19 March 24 14:22 GMT (UK) »
Could it be D&P?
(Declared and Paid)

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Re: What does DNP mean?
« Reply #25 on: Wednesday 20 March 24 18:38 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: martin hooper on Tuesday 06 February 24 14:31 GMT (UK)
Could it be simply the minister's initials?

This is very unlikely - the minister at New Monkland from 1759 to 1793 was Revd. Patrick Maxwell, followed by Revd. Thomas Freebairn/Fairbairn from 1794 to 1800.  [via Fasti Ecclesiae Scoticanae available via www.ecclegen.com]

Gadget's suggestion of something to do with the Stamp Duty Acts[such as Did Not Pay, or Duty Not Paid] seems more persuasive given that the annotations only seem to appear when these were in force .

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BURNSIDE [Londonderry, Lothians and Pennsylvania]
THORBURN [Lanarkshire], VAIR [Melrose]
SWEENEY [Donegal/Lanarkshire]
GILCHRIST [Lanarkshire, Peebles, Lothians], SMITH [Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire, Lothians]
GREGORY [Bucks, Wales], BENNETT [Somerset, Wales]
LETHERBY/HOWLETT/PHIPPS [Somerset]
HUNTER [New Monkland, Fife], GWYNNE [New Monkland, Stirling, Midlothian]
LOGIE/DUNLOP/THOMSON/YOUNG [West Lothian]
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