PB?

[KN]

Dear Rootschatters

I'm using my copy of parish records for Hagbourne, from the "Wallingford Registration District Vol. 2" CD, produced by the Oxfordshire Family History Society.

Quite a few of the baptisms have the term "PB" or "PB dead" or "PB died" next to them.  Could anyone explain what PB might mean please?

thanks!

KN

[Old Bristolian]

Probably "privately baptised" meaning the child was baptised at home. Often practiced when a child was sickly and considered likely to die, but not always,

Steve

[KN]

Thanks very much Steve, seems like a highly probable answer!

 

KN

[philheeks]

I'll second what Steve told you re PB meaning private baptism

All the very best

Phil
Weston-super-Mare

[clairec666]

Agreed, PB means private baptism.  It doesn't necessarily mean the child died soon after, I've found plenty who lived to a ripe old age!