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From: Gen Mail <>
Subject: Re: [YKS] illegitimate child
Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 21:25:49 +0000
In-Reply-To: <00dd01c4e60a$71f74b30$6dae4254@rob7hahvemot0g>

On Sunday, Dec 19, 2004, at 20:36 Europe/London, Robert Burns wrote:

> As far as I am aware these
> didn't allow for the child to be baptised in the fathers name but were
> more
> to do with the poor union.

In some places the Clerk/Curate/Vicar/Rector writing in the Parish
Registers would put something like...

X purportive daughter/son of y Smith and z Brown or
alleged

or most often

X bastard daughter/son of y and z

hth Jay

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