Annotation in Baptism register margin - "NP"

rusheens

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

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.

rusheens

Thanks, though these registers are in English.

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.

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

P. Breathnach

Were they mostly males?

Hermy

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

KildareFan

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.