Jan, I believe that a natural child is an illegitimate birth, while a lawful child is born to married parents. > In the Old Parish Registers of Births is there a difference between the > natural child of and the lawful child of and if so, what? Bill Teschek teschek@tiac.net Orkney genealogy home page for the GENUKI project http://www.tiac.net/users/teschek/genuki/OKI Distributor of JuicePlus+ nutritional supplements Follow this link to discover a simple, easy, and effective way to dramatically improve your chances of avoiding cancer... http://www.nsanet.com/jp.html