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From: "Peter A. Kincaid" <>
Subject: Re: [Derry] BAPTISMS (N.Child)
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:22:43 -0400
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In-Reply-To: <005001c1a331$0de45f80$91071cd3@LH>


At 09:28 PM 22/01/02 +1100, you wrote:
>Hello Dave.
>I saw the reply that N.Child was probably Natural Child. That seems correct
>in this case, because the parents are both given with different surnames;
>whereas I notice for your last two entries they are shown as SMITH.
>Presumably this means that you will find a marriage for them between 1815
>and 1818.

I am going off the top off my head here so I may
be wrong but I believe that N.C. was a notation
for "non conformist" (ie. a Presbyterian might
have their child baptised in the Church of Ireland
for legal purposes). From what I've seen the
minister was usually blunt about a child out of
wedlock calling it a bastard or illegitimate child;
even naming the father.

Best wishes!


Peter A. Kincaid
Hampton, NB, Canada

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