Hi all,
On the attached record, baptism No. 583 is my great grandfather. He emigrated to Australia and was a very successful farmer, dying at the age of 85 after having 11 children. My question is about the word after his name in the second column. He was illegitimate (as were three other children on the two pages) and I am used to seeing "base born" or similar on baptism registers. But the word after "William Alexander" does not appear on the other illegitimate children. In Australia he never used the second given name, although some of the Welsh documents we have list him as "William A", but I doubt he had a third given name. I wondered if any Rootschatters had a suggestion as to what the word might be. Anne Jones was a spinster, and the way that was written had us scratching our heads for a while. The abode we take to be something like "Keel" but that is not really important. It is just that word after "William Alexander" that has us beat.
As always, any help gratefully appreciated.
Geoff Turner
