from Collins Australian Dictionary: "baseborn" (adjective ACHAIC) 1. born of humble parents (getting married cost money and not all could afford it: Deb) 2. illegitimate 3. mean; contemptible Hopefully not the cascade effect of one leading automatically down to the others! I noted on one parish register that the trend towards putting this word next to some births (where the father's name was sometimes not written) was falling into disuse as the C19 wore on.... Deb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Partridge" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2007 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [ENG-CAMS] BASEBORN CHILD > Hi Margaret ! > > Yes ! - it means that she was a "single mum" who had > given birth to an illegitimate child ! - I suppose it was > just a shade better than calling them "a bastard" - but > you may even find that in some registers ! > > Nowadays I think you would find an even higher > percentage of them in the registers ! > > Best Wishes, Roger. > -------------------- > On 8 Feb 2007, at 22:34, Margaret Dellar wrote: > >> Please could somebody tell me what a baseborn child is, >> I notice there are several in the Bassingbourn parish >> registers. >> >> Thank you >> Margaret >> Norton 2007 scans all mail. >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message