Author Topic: Anyone know what 'pareabacte' means? (Read 4417 times)

jillruss · « **on:** Tuesday 01 April 08 20:49 BST (UK) »

I've just been checking through a transcription of the parish records of Rotherfield Peppard in Oxfordshire and - against a baptism in 1652 it says ' born Shiplack, a parreabacte'.

Shiplake is very near to Rotherfield Peppard, but I've no idea whether 'pareabacte' refers to Shiplake or to the family concerned.

I tried googling but apparently there's no such word!!

Can anyone help?

Jill

pjbuk007 · « **Reply #1 on:** Tuesday 01 April 08 20:53 BST (UK) »

Are you sure those are the letters?

Can you post a bit of a scan so the handwriting experts can have a go?

Little Nell · « **Reply #2 on:** Tuesday 01 April 08 20:54 BST (UK) »

I wonder if someone has misread and mistranscribed the word "parabaptism" which means an uncanonical baptism.

(Please don't ask me to explain in detail what that means - I have no idea.

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Nell

Gadget · « **Reply #3 on:** Tuesday 01 April 08 21:05 BST (UK) »

Given that this would have been in the Commonwealth period, it is very likely that Nell's interpretation is correct.

I don't feel that I can explain the bpt, marriage and burial records of this time, either - a bit complicated.

Gadget

jillruss · « **Reply #4 on:** Tuesday 01 April 08 21:05 BST (UK) »

It's from an Oxon FHS transcription - so no handwriting to scan, I'm afraid.

That's definetly what the transcriber has put - 'pareabacte'. I quite like it and feel it should be added to the dictionary - just got to think of a meaning! Sounds as though it should be a new type of camel!!

Nell - never heard of one of them before but it seems like a good possibility. Please can you explain in detail what a parabaptism is?

Jill

Little Nell · « **Reply #5 on:** Tuesday 01 April 08 21:14 BST (UK) »

In your dreams

Nell

Gadget · « **Reply #6 on:** Tuesday 01 April 08 21:20 BST (UK) »

uncanonical:

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1. not in accordance with canons or rules.
2. not belonging to the canon of Scripture.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/uncanonical

Nearest that I can get to a cat nap

Gadget

Little Nell · « **Reply #7 on:** Tuesday 01 April 08 21:23 BST (UK) »

Lydart might know

Nell

stanmapstone · « **Reply #8 on:** Tuesday 01 April 08 21:39 BST (UK) »

Parabaptism, in the early church, uncanonical baptism; unauthorized baptism in private or in a conventicle, as opposed to public baptism in a church or diocesan baptistery. OED.

Stan

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