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From: "Leo Leonard" <>
Subject: Birth or Christening Date?
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 10:19:17 -0400

DelMarVa Researchers:

Thanks to Charles Frakes for the information concerning the recording of
birth dates in county court records and in parish records.

A researcher on this list--I think-- pointed out that it is a mistake to
assume that because a person's birth date is recorded in Maryland county
court records that he was born in Maryland. He might, for example, have
been born in England.

Do colonial Maryland parish registers actually record dates of birth or do
they record dates of christening? I recall one researcher saying that he
had discovered that an ancestor of his had been christened as an adult. The
date recorded in the parish register was--of course--much later than his
date of birth.

Good hunting,
Leo Leonard

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----- Original Message -----
From: "cefrakes" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2004 2:04 PM
Subject: Liber I.K.L. Somerset Co. Court 1649-1720


> Leo,
>
> From "State of Maryland Vital Records" on the Ancestry.com web site at URL
> http://www.negenealogy.com/md/md_records/vital.htm. "Since 1640 the
> Maryland Assembly provided for the recording of births, marriages, and
> burials by the clerk of "Every Court," and banns (announcment of
marriages)
> were to be posted three days before the marriage, but very few of these
> records exist. Those that do are indexed at the Maryland State Archives.
In
> 1692 the Anglican church became the official church of the colony, and the
> parishes were instructed to register the births, marriages, and deaths of
> all residents."
>
> Charles Frakes
> Scotts Valley CA
>
> (researching Frakes, Freakes, Friggs and variants in MD, VA, PA, OH, KY,
> IN.)
>
> ______________________________

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