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From: Eleanor Brennan <>
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Re Multiple births same year
Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 12:50:29 -0700
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Hi Andy: Thanks very much for the info. I looked at the sheet as you
suggested and every one have the year above the day & month of Baptism, but
as for under the date of birth my three are the only ones that don't have
the year under the day & month. Go figure. As I said yesterday in an email
I think I will leave it for now as it is too mind boggling.
Thanks again
Eleanor
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy Candlish" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 12:02 AM
Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Re Multiple births same year


> Hi
>
> This looks like a case were the minister has caught up with births that
> haven't been recorded correctly when they occurred and in doing so has
> written the current year rather than the actual year of the birth. These
> baptisms may not have even been in the Church of Scotland but elsewhere. I
> have couple of images that sounds similar to yours for a parish in
> Perthshire where the pages consist of births and baptisms of family groups
> and the dates cover over 10 years, I know that my relatives were baptised
> in
> the United Presbyterian Church and not Church of Scotland so I suspect
> that
> the minister was catching up with births/baptisms that were outside his
> church but hadn't been recorded
>
> It might be worth having a close look at others on the page to see if they
> are simolar to your relatives
>
> Andy
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eleanor Brennan" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 12:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Re Multiple births same year
>
>
>> Thanks for the info Sandra. I took your advice & looked at the 1881
>> census
>> & found two of the children & their ages are listed as four years apart.
>> As
>> I said in my last email, I think I will just pass on them for now. I
>> don't
>> want to put any dates for them in my family tree till I have more proof.
>> Thanks again & take care
>> Eleanor Geekie-Brennan
>> Canada
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sandra Ruch" <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2011 8:22 AM
>> Subject: Re: [ABERDEEN] Re Multiple births same year
>>
>>
>>> If you check these children in later census records, you'll discover if
>>> they
>>> all really were born the same year. Otherwise, by 1881 or later,
>>> they'll
>>> have sorted themselves out. Sandi
>>>
>
>
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