Just to throw a spanner in the works - I have found "lawful" births and "illegitimate" births shown as such on the Parish Register films I have searched. I have not come across a "natural" birth on any of them. Eunice Williams in South Australia teschek@tiac.net wrote: > 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