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Title: 1626 Baptism
Post by: Davedrave on Thursday 17 January 19 09:17 GMT (UK)
I would be very grateful for a transcription of the baptism of Anna (?) on the middle line here.

Dave :)
Title: Re: 1626 Baptism
Post by: shume on Thursday 17 January 19 09:35 GMT (UK)
I see " Anna daughter (i.e. filia) A.a.... Beaufort..9 day(ie) dei November"
shume
Title: Re: 1626 Baptism
Post by: Davedrave on Thursday 17 January 19 09:47 GMT (UK)
Quote from: shume on Thursday 17 January 19 09:35 GMT (UK)
I see " Anna daughter (i.e. filia) A.a.... Beaufort..9 day(ie) dei November"
shume

Thanks shume. My Latin isn’t very good but I think the bit you are seeing as “Beaufort” is actually the abbreviated Latin phrase for “was baptised” (maybe “Baptista fuit” from a Google) because it is also there in the previous entry and occurs commonly in registers when they were in Latin.

Dave :)
Title: Re: 1626 Baptism
Post by: goldie61 on Thursday 17 January 19 09:55 GMT (UK)
I'd agree Dave.
It's 'bapt fuit' - was baptised.

The christian name of Anna's father is the query I'm guessing.

It looks like 'Araham'. The first letter is the same as 'A' on Anna.

Is there  another word on the page with that classic long looped small letter 'h'?
'Humphrey' in the line above only has a capital H.
Title: Re: 1626 Baptism
Post by: Old Bristolian on Thursday 17 January 19 10:01 GMT (UK)
I think it is Araham, possibly a misspelling of Abraham
Title: Re: 1626 Baptism
Post by: shume on Thursday 17 January 19 10:04 GMT (UK)
http://broadcast.lds.org/elearning/FHD/Community/en/FamilySearch/Handwriting/English/Lesson_1/Alphabet_Examples_of_English_Script_from_the_1500s_and_1600s.pdf
http://web.archive.org/web/20120518223325/http://www.genealogia.fi/faq/faq031fe.htm
Ah yes can see the Baptised part but perhaps these 2 links might help with the all important name.
shume
Title: Re: 1626 Baptism
Post by: Davedrave on Thursday 17 January 19 10:08 GMT (UK)
Thanks goldie61, here is a bit more, which has a lower case “h”. I think that Anna’s father could be Abraham Lea, who had other children baptised here in 1628 and 1632, but I don’t want to invent my evidence. (The website transcription has it as Abraham but hasn’t hazarded a guess on the surname).

Dave :)
Title: Re: 1626 Baptism
Post by: horselydown86 on Thursday 17 January 19 10:29 GMT (UK)
I'm pretty comfortable that goldie and Old Bristolian have the first name right.

The surname is probably Leae, after subtracting interference from the name above.

The last part:   ...9o die novembris

That is:  nono die = on the ninth day
Title: Re: 1626 Baptism
Post by: Davedrave on Thursday 17 January 19 10:52 GMT (UK)
Many thanks for the replies. And yet another variation on the name Lea, it seems ::)
Still, I find the documents from this period much more appealing than more recent, printed information.

Dave :)