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From: "david kindred" <>
Subject: Re: Meaning of xd-d in transcripts
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 15:07:18


This, of course, brings a whole new meaning to an X-rated movie........

David C Kindred


From: "dcbill" <>
Reply-To: "dcbill" <>
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Subject: Re: Meaning of xd-d in transcripts
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 14:18:28 +0100

If I could add a PS to David's message - my favourite is Xopher or even
Xofer for Christopher !
Valerie Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: David Lamb <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 6:58 AM
Subject: Re: Meaning of xd-d in transcripts


> Hello,
> The letter x is often used as an abbreviation of "Christ", as in "Xmas"
and,
> less frequently, "Xtian" for "Christian". (Some say that this is because
of
> the cross, but it's probably because the Greek letter khi, which is
written
> like an English X, is the initial letter of the title "Christ" in Greek,
> the language in which the New Testament was originally written). I am
> fairly certain that "xd" means "christened" and "d" means "died".
Charles
> Stanley PARTRIDGE often seems to have shortened things; indeed he hardly
> ever used his middle name, which has led to considerable confusion
between
> him, and Charles Harold PARTRIDGE who wrote "The Partridges of Wishanger
> Abbey". I've even seen "Partridge of Shelley Hall" mistakenly attributed
to
> C.Harold PARTRIDGE instead of Charles Stanley.
> Regards,
> David Lamb, Devon, England
> Interests: Essex: BAXTER, BERRY, DODSON, GOLDSTONE, LAMB, NEWMAN,
PARTRIDGE,
> SARGENT, WEBB, WILLSHER Suffolk: BRINGLOVE or BRYNGLOVE, FINCH,
PARTRIDGE
> Sussex: RALPH Norfolk: DODSON
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sue <>
> To: <>
> Date: 29 April 2001 14:34
> Subject: Meaning of xd-d in transcripts
>
>
> >I currently have the Playford Transcripts by C Partridge and underneath
a
> >few baptism entries it has xd-d. Anybody have any idea what this means.
I
> >know that one of the 'children' marked as such died several months after
> the
> >baptism. It appears that they were all privately baptised. Some of the
> >private entries also state "received into the Church on (date)", those
> >marked xd-d don't have this, so presume that it is due to a death.
> >
> >If anyone is looking for CUTTING, NAUNTON, PARMENTER,WALFORD, WALTON,
> HEWITT
> >(from Westerfield) or CATLIN I have transcribed records with these
names.
> >
> >Cheers
> >Sue Thompson
> >Bunbury, Western Australia
> >
> >______________________________
>
>
>


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