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Annotation in Baptism register margin - "NP"

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  • 19-03-2015 11:37pm
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    rusheens
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭


    Hi, does anyone know what the annotation "NP" in the right margin next to the entry of a Catholic baptism might mean? It's in Mayo in 1833.

    thanks


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    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    Sorry I don't know the answer to your query but for other info on Latin terms in church records Family Search have a useful web page on the subject.

    Genealogy Forum Mod



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    rusheens
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭rusheens


    Thanks, though these registers are in English.


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    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    I don't know, but wonder if it might be "non-parishioner".

    I have seen instances of a child (usually the first in a family) being born in the mother's family home rather than in the couple's home - the young wife being helped through her first delivery by her mother.


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    rusheens
    Registered Users Posts: 16 ✭rusheens


    Thanks. This is the third child, born in the same parish - Kilmoremoy, Co Mayo - but the family is this time resident in a different townland... I wonder if that is related to your "non-parishioner" idea?

    I probably should have added - there are two other NP annotations on baptisms on the same page, and looking back and forward a few pages in the register, it often is noted a couple of times a page


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    P. Breathnach
    Registered Users Posts: 12,089 ✭✭✭✭P. Breathnach


    Were they mostly males?


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    Hermy
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 11,305 Mod ✭✭✭✭Hermy


    What about 'not present' - denoting that the mother wasn't present at the service?

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    KildareFan
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    more likely 'no payment'; in earlier times the mother generally didn't attend the baptism as babies were baptised within a couple of days of birth.


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