Hello Robert. Although it seems pretty well impossible in view of its use in the burial entry and of course because of the father's "Christian" name I wonder if it could it be an abbreviation for "Yiddish/Jiddish" ie Jewish ? Jim Halsey On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Robert Hillier < robert@hillieruk.demon.co.uk> wrote: > In a Dorset baptismal record in a parish register in 1687, the father's > name (Christopher Eyers) is followed by what I read a few weeks ago as > Jid. Today I found the father's burial record in 1701 - this time I > read the word/abbreviation after his surname as Jid or fid (not Fid). No > other entry that I've seen in this register has this word. It's not Sen >