A follow-up to my original post on Jannettie de Kleuse. I rec'd several off line email's with varied opinions. I have the sender's permission to post the following email to the DuCol list. I was also sent an interesting website to check out _http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/dutch_bi.htm_ (http://www.ristenbatt.com/genealogy/dutch_bi.htm) On the Trail of our Ancestors, which mentions Jannettie de Kleuse. Regards, Ethel ====================== >From an anonymous lister. I read this several times. "When the father was from the home" at first sounded as if the father was AWAY from home, but why would that have been such a scandalous thing? Maybe this infant was the result of incest..."the father was from the home" meaning "from her home", related to her, and this child baptised as if it had been the child of two married Reformed people. That I could understand as something that could never be tolerated, and as a scandal of the proportions described, which might have ended the poor mother in this kind of hot water. Presenting the result of an incestuous relationship for Holy Baptism would be totally unacceptable, where they would baptise a child of unmarried parents, while generally identifying it as such. Maybe I'm entirely off base here, but anyway that idea came to me. ================================ <BR><BR><BR>**************************************<BR> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.