Can't recall the actual Parish. but Holme Hale,and Scarning area as looking for relatives, but the likely single mum had brought her brood , 3 or 4, to Church for Baptism and the Vicar had appended "all bastards"' If I 'd been her and known what was to be added, I wouldn't have bothered. But this is now and then was then. I also have a relative who today would be described as "partner", appearing on the 1881 census as Paramour! David On 5/12/2016 10:20 PM, Diane Foster via wrote: > I saw several baptisms in mid 1700s as "child by chance" . At first, just > for a moment, I thought that Mr Chance had been a busy lad! I soon > realized that it was the vicars comment for a child to a single mother.. > > Diane - Western Australia > > On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 4:33 PM, Ours via <norfolk@rootsweb.com> wrote: > >> Hi Linda >> >> If you look at Sarah/Elizabeth Forster baptisms in Middleton, in January >> 1820 and October 1821, there are a couple of choice comments! >> >> Hope that helps >> >> Ann >> >> >>> On 11 May 2016 1:11 PM, Linda Wright via wrote: >>> >>> I am giving a talk to my local history group about illegitimacy. Over the >>> years I have come across some pithy comments by the vicar in the baptism >>> records, of course now I have no idea where they were! >>> >>> If anyone can share comments that vicars have made it would be great or >>> anything related to the subject. >> Sent from my iPad >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >