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