> I believe it is 'nunc' as in 'nunc pro tunc'....that would be a child that was in a sense adopted by one of the members of the present marriage, having been born to one of the parents in a prior marriage. Or perhaps it is a Latin version of an expression I have found in a number of wills (so a legal term, and therefore deliberately obscure?!) referring to a testator's wife as "my now wife". Regards, John Moore