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From: "Edward Crawford" <>
Subject: Re: [CARIBBEAN] Re: slave names
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 20:31:08 +0100


That too about successive, if somewhat uncanonical baptisms is very
interesting Richard.

However the two cases of incest of which I know or suspect, whether by a
plantation owner in the early 1800s or a Dorset policemen in the early 1900s
generally occurred when the perpetrator was heavily in drink. And among the
other items in the inventory are 20 gallons of rum and 10 dozen bottles of
Madeira.
But there are to my suspicious mind a number of little indications none of
which is decisive but which do not contradict that hypothesis.

And yes - there would be no recognition of the child - but that was general.

Edward Crawford
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Bond <>
To: <>
Date: 11 October 1999 14:53
Subject: Re: [CARIBBEAN] Re: slave names


May I suggest that Eleanor Wallen may have been baptized more than once
and that each time she ended up with a different saints name. If the son
was not recognized by his father he would have ended up with his mothers
surname regardless of who his father was. Incest did exist but basic
lack of recognition was more common.


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