Thanks for the information Julie. It all makes sense now. Interestingly, I suspect this notation may be more common in Norfolk than elsewhere. Good to know what it means now! Thanks to all for your help. Kind regards Heather Minol ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norfolk" <[email protected]> To: "Heather Minol" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 4:35 AM Subject: Re: [NFK] PS RE: New lister with a question re note on baptism entry > It is very common, and it just means the mother was a spinster prior to > marriage - you sometimes also see late widow but less often. > > Julie > > On 18/07/2014 19:00, Heather Minol via wrote: >> Thank you for your response Dudley. I do not believe that the mother was >> dead, as more children appear to have been born up to 1817. I will check >> the >> burial register just in case though. >> Thanks so much for your help. >> >> Heather Minol >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dudley Diaper" <[email protected]> >> To: "'Heather Minol'" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2014 3:29 AM >> Subject: PS RE: [NFK] New lister with a question re note on baptism entry >> >> >>> Hello >>> >>> I was jumping to the conclusion that the mother was dead. "Late" could >>> just >>> mean "formerly", so perhaps she had the baby unmarried but married >>> before >>> the baptism. The burial register might help with that one. >>> >>> DD >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] >>> On >>> Behalf Of Heather Minol via >>> Sent: 18 July 2014 18:14 >>> To: [email protected] >>> Subject: [NFK] New lister with a question re note on baptism entry >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have just joined the list and am researching a number of families in >>> Norfolk, including ELMER, WALKER and NEWSTEAD. >>> >>> I have just come across a baptism entry in 1809 containing the note: >>> "mother >>> late spinster" and I'm wondering if anyone can tell me what that means >>> please? I've come up with a couple of theories, but would like to hear >>> from >>> someone who has better knowledge of the terminology than I do. >>> >>> Kind regards >>> >>> Heather Minol >>> Canberra >>> Australia >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > -- > Julie Harold > FreeREG Norfolk Coordinator > http://www.freereg.org.uk > >

On 19 Jul 2014 03:32, Heather Minol via wrote: > Thanks for the information Julie. It all makes sense now. Interestingly, I > suspect this notation may be more common in Norfolk than elsewhere. Good to > know what it means now! Not really. In my experience, it's pretty common everywhere, although the woman's previous surname is generally used. -- Regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg