a very common phrase

[Libby56]

I keep coming across this phrase in most of the parish records I didn't really think much of it at the time but now it's becoming a challenge.
I can make out most of the words but it doesn't make any sense until I can identify the word after born and before Bap(tism)
thanks.

[Gadget]

Do you mean Base Born ?

It ment illegitimate.

No - I looked at the wrong side of born

[Gadget]

Could you give a larger snip of the page so that comparisons with other letters can be made.

[Viktoria]

Base, where bastard stems from, but then as was once said, no such thing as an illegitimate child ,it is the parents who are illegitimate ie out of the law,as it stood.
Viktoria.

[Bee]

Could it be base born dau, short for daughter?

[Libby56]

Hey Bee....I got the base born ok, I just can't see daughter, like i say I see the phrase a lot this particular line was on a page of several. Now you have me thinking! could it be an abbreviation of pauper... it looks to me like a pau with a little r
If that is the case you have just solved a mystery for me.
I will see if i can find another example.................

[JenB]

I am seeing it as ...base born a pau[pe]r....

[Libby56]

Thank you JenB...that's what I was hoping for, when I saw Bee's reply the penny kind of dropped.
Thank you both.