http://www.sovereign-ancestry.com/settlement.html Not sure but this may help ! ? -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Richards <bryanrichards@btinternet.com> To: glamorgan <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 20:46 Subject: [GLA] Covenanted Servant I have an 1820 baptism entry where the mother is listed as a "Covenanted ervant" I can only find those of high office, particularly in the old Colonial ndian Service. For omeone who signed with the mark of X in her marriage, I am looking at a ormal ervant of farm or estate. But why covenanted ? Any ideas Bryan ww.swanseamariners.org.uk -- To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com LAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at ttp://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found t http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ - he South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages ttp://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and ttp://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html ------------------------------- o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message

Hi Robert Thank you for the link. That sound like it. She was born very close by in the adjoining parish. Perhaps it did have something to do with the parish relief. However in this case the baptism is recorded as base born child, again the father and mother of difference surnames even though we have a copy of marriage in the adjoining parish register 3 years earlier. Seems odd, perhaps the vicar did not believe they were married ? Thanks again Bryan