Hello Cara, thank you very much. The parish registers are interesting in that some are filled with notes and references and others just the bare facts. Cheers, Gay Sent from my iPad > On Jul 14, 2015, at 1:17 AM, Cara_Links via <cotipperary@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > \the word in in fact Spurious and means bastard which in turn refers to a > mixed marriage between a catholic and a protestant > > A stranger is someone who does not belong to the same parish and as a rule > these baptisms referred to between different religions often refer to a > stranger, > which does suggest to me that they did come from a different parish to have > their child baptised and try and avoid the stigma > remember if you were classed as illegitimate you could not become certain > things in society, ( best way for me to word it ) and other things of course > > > > um multis aliis quæ nunc perscribere longum est =with many other matters > that it would be tedious now to write in full (i.e., etc., etc., etc.) and > generally I have found this is what they mean in a parish register. have the > time I feel it was a fancy way of writing etc etc etc ........... > > Cheers for now > Cara > > > > > When replying to a message in the digest please do two things: > 1. Change the 'Subject' to that of the message you are replying to. > 2. Delete all the messages above and below the one you are concerned with. > Thank You. > > All of the past messages of this list can be found in the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cotipperary > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to COTIPPERARY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message