Letter A in baptism register

[jc26red]

Possibly C = consecrated ground

[steadyrollingman]

Surely that goes w/o saying on a church register though?

Oh yeah, and it's also not a quick visual aid to show 'Children', as the entry I recorded was for a 39 year old woman.

[Andrew Tarr]

Catholic ?

[iolaus]

Is there a secondary church attached to it? - sometimes they seem to share a register

[steadyrollingman]

Is there a secondary church attached to it? - sometimes they seem to share a register

No, it's just Kelloe St Helen in Co Durham. IIRC, there's an additional register called Kelloe (Thornley) from when parish boundaries were changed, but think that was long after 1877. And it's really just a couple of pages that have this (again, IIRC).

[Andrew Tarr]

I suggested Catholic as a possibility, having transcribed Anglican burials for Formby in Lancashire in the Victorian period.  Quite a few were labelled Catholic, as this was before a Catholic chapel had been built and presumably they were interred in local consecrated ground.  But the distinction had to be made ...

[steadyrollingman]

I suggested Catholic as a possibility, having transcribed Anglican burials for Formby in Lancashire in the Victorian period.  Quite a few were labelled Catholic, as this was before a Catholic chapel had been built and presumably they were interred in local consecrated ground.  But the distinction had to be made ...

Oh really?  Well, it's certainly an Anglican parish so not sure. The people I recorded were ones with the relevant surname but not yet sure how (or if) they fit into my tree, so don't have any clues as to their affiliations. Odd that a load of Catholics died in the same week though if that's correct - unless I was looking at 1677 by mistake, rather than 1877!

[Andrew Tarr]

Well, it's certainly an Anglican parish so not sure. The people I recorded were ones with the relevant surname but not yet sure how (or if) they fit into my tree, so don't have any clues as to their affiliations. Odd that a load of Catholics died in the same week though if that's correct - unless I was looking at 1677 by mistake, rather than 1877!

Ah, if you have a close batch maybe my suggestion doesn't hold much water, especially for baptisms.  But pre-registration the established churches were effectively the registration authority, and families were often baptised en masse, and maybe again later in a place more to their liking.

[arthurk]

I had a sudden inspiration on the 'C' against multiple entries in a burial register.

Might there have been a local epidemic, which the minister decided to keep a record of? Cholera, perhaps?