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From: "Ron Sloane" <>
Subject: Re: P.B. on Baptism record.
Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 16:09:02 +1000
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I understand that "P.B." stands for" privately baptized." This often took
place if an infant was in danger of death.

It was also fashionable for the English gentry to have their children
privately baptized instead of having the same ceremony as the "common
peasants"!

Dorothy

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From: "Peter" <>
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Sent: Friday, April 11, 2003 11:10 AM
Subject: P.B. on Baptism record.


> Can anyone please tell me what the notation "P. B." on an English
> baptism record means? They are on the Bishops Transcripts for 1832 and
> 1837 Knaresborough, Yorkshire.
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> Peter.
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