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Title: Baptism of a child in 1694 what does 'chylde' means?
Post by: jkhansen on Saturday 28 October 17 12:35 BST (UK)

Please - need a little help of understanding this word, "chylde"?
Definition of chylde?
I have checked online dictionay and is written, 'a youth of gentle birth'.

Andrew Meikle and Elspeth Beans had a chylde bap-
tized named Andrew, March 27th 1694   
Witnesses Walter Snadoune and Robert Meikle.

Thanks
JKH

Title: Re: Baptism of a child in 1694 what does 'chylde' means?
Post by: youngtug on Saturday 28 October 17 12:36 BST (UK)

Just another way of spelling child.

Title: Re: Baptism of a child in 1694 what does 'chylde' means?
Post by: jkhansen on Saturday 28 October 17 12:48 BST (UK)

Thanks - a swift answer to the word, 'chylde'.
I was begining to read 'baseborn'  - yet to trace more of parents!

Title: Re: Baptism of a child in 1694 what does 'chylde' means?
Post by: josey on Saturday 28 October 17 12:55 BST (UK)

I think I read a rootschat post a while ago where the terms 'child' meant a specific age range at baptism. Unless the minister/clerk of that parish always used the term 'chylde' for babies....

Title: Re: Baptism of a child in 1694 what does 'chylde' means?
Post by: youngtug on Saturday 28 October 17 12:59 BST (UK)

Spelling;   
http://www.rootschat.com/links/01kyn/
 

Title: Re: Baptism of a child in 1694 what does 'chylde' means?
Post by: youngtug on Saturday 28 October 17 13:01 BST (UK)

http://www.differencebetween.info/difference-between-infant-and-child

Title: Re: Baptism of a child in 1694 what does 'chylde' means?
Post by: Guy Etchells on Saturday 28 October 17 13:19 BST (UK)

Quote from: jkhansen on Saturday 28 October 17 12:35 BST (UK)

Please - need a little help of understanding this word, "chylde"?
Definition of chylde?
I have checked online dictionay and is written, 'a youth of gentle birth'.

Andrew Meikle and Elspeth Beans had a chylde bap-
tized named Andrew, March 27th 1694   
Witnesses Walter Snadoune and Robert Meikle.

Thanks
JKH

Don't overthink entries in parish registers in a few cases there may be a specific meaning to a word but in most cases it is simply a generic term being used depending on the mood of the clerk.

Sometimes by studying the terms that a particular clerk used over a period of months or even years one may see a pattern but don't be surprised if no pattern appears.

Cheers
Guy

Title: Re: Baptism of a child in 1694 what does 'chylde' means?
Post by: Rena on Saturday 28 October 17 15:56 BST (UK)

I can think of one other reason for a child to be baptised.    In 1690 the Reformed Presbyterian Church of Scotland was formed and as most parish churches had an attached school, then it may be that one condition of a youngster being educated was that it had to be baptised into that church.

Title: Re: Baptism of a child in 1694 what does 'chylde' means?
Post by: Forfarian on Sunday 29 October 17 19:07 GMT (UK)

I doubt that either the spelling or the use of the word 'child' has any significance at all.

Title: Re: Baptism of a child in 1694 what does 'chylde' means?
Post by: emmanne on Monday 30 October 17 18:09 GMT (UK)

Hi,
This is an old Scottish word
A Dictionary of the Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
gives 2 results for chylde.
1 variant of child
2 variant of man child
Anne