Its a long time ago and it cannot be rectified.. but it is so sad when you come across a record like this...
this was -- an actual human being if only for an hour.. and has only ever been known as this..
so very sad
xin
It is sad the baby only lived an hour, but at least he was given a name unlike thousands of still born babies who were not even named.
What I do find sad is that in the 21st century people still miss-understand the true meaning of the legal term bastard and dwell on the derogatory undertones the word assumed by use by hypocrites and the ill-informed.
The word bastard simply means the persons parents were not married to each other when he/she was born, unlike illegitimate which means the child is not a legal or allowable child.
There were reasons a child was described as a bastard in the parish register and one was because the parish was responsible for his/her upbringing if his/her parents could not or would not provide, that word written in the birth register provided a legal indisputable safety net for him/her when all else failed.
Cheers
Guy
