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From: Mona Rainville <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Anonymous Burial
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:27:10 -0500
References: <CCEOJBBOBIEELIPNIKCNGEIBBFAB.rcummi1123@rogers.com>
In-Reply-To: <CCEOJBBOBIEELIPNIKCNGEIBBFAB.rcummi1123@rogers.com>


Hum.... Renée,

This note in your FTM has a "déjà-vu" feel to it... As in, I wrote that!
:-D

Cheers!

Mona



Renee Cummings wrote:
> Hi Charlie
> here I found this note in my FTM
>
> (...)
>

> Here, the record does not state in any positive way that the gender of
> this child could not be determined. It simply states that this is the
> burial of a child who died two days earlier, and who had died
> immediately after being summarily baptized (ondoye) at home by the
> midwife. (The midwife obviously had not baptized a corpse, so the
> baptism had taken place on the 14th of December 1774, right after the
> birth and right before the death.)
>
> (...)
>
> Calins
> Renee
>
>

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