Roy, Another term I have found in early parish registers, that you may have come across is: Filius Populi - A child of the people Sandra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 11:28 AM Subject: Re: [HRT] BOOME family of London Colney & Shenley From: Marlene Shipman <[email protected]> > Delighted you had a good day! Getting as close as possible to original > sources is absolutely essential to good research for accuracy and > understanding of the circumstances. The Rsieley Beds registers had one > of those Vicars who detailed deaths whilst chiding some locals! > Delightful comments such as "Not Baptised, arranged special ceremony" > or "Non comformist, buried in Mrs O' s orchard" a great help to anyone > looking for burial place! These comments were alongside some rather > gruesome details of the manner of death of some unfortunate folk! > > And there was a charming fellow at a Parish in Northants who alerted > family historians to illegitimate births by proclaiming in the Margin > "Ba****d!"> That was a very common term used by many incumbents, the other most popular being "base-born". However, there were some who were kinder and used the delightful term, "merrily begotten", which I have seen a few times. I think my favourite parish register entry of all time is this one - with apologies that it has nothing to do with Hertfordshire but is still worth repeating..... >From the registers of Barlaston, Staffordshire:- "25 Oct 1752 - Sarah illeg dau Mary Sutton of Barlaston, spinster, & a travelling soldier (as she pretended and swore, but nobody believed). NB the mother is an impudent, brutish and profligate wretch, deformed in body, but much more deformed in mind." BTW, I hope the Listowner will forgive me mentioning this but one of the talks I give to societies is called "It's A Funny Old Genealogical World" and comprises a large collection of such entries from parish registers, censuses, MIs and newspapers, etc. Open to invites! -- Roy Stockdill Professional genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE ------------------------------- 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 _______________________________________ No viruses found in this incoming message Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.4.5 http://www.iolo.com _______________________________________ No viruses found in this outgoing message Scanned by iolo AntiVirus 1.5.4.5 http://www.iolo.com