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    Hi -
    Need a little help with two words in this entry. Background: Eliza Ann Brookins, b. 1867, whose mother died in childbirth, is baptized in a private baptism two days old. The next entry is a baptism for George Brown, s/o David & Jane, also a private baptism on the same day.

    Eliza died 2ish years later, and Jane Brown is the informant. This is a farming community, and David Brown's occupation is described as Labourer in the Baptismal entry.

    My interpretation of this snippet:


    XXXXXX to Jas Brookins & bapt at the same time as his child
    Woman acting as wet nurse XXXX

    Anyone guess what the first & last words are?

    Happy Easter
    Sarah
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  • #2
    First word looks like 'Collier' or Collin but doesn't quite fit whilst the last word is perhaps, 'Dit'...................although that doesn't fit either.

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    • #3
      Collier (Coal) and Wet Nurse to it, meaning to the child.

      Edna

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      • #4
        I think it MEANS "Collier woman acting as wet nurse to it (Jas Brookins' child). Badly written but HE knew what he meant!
        OC

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        • #5
          I thought the word looked like Collier, but I couldn't figure out what Collier had to do with farming?

          Thanks, everyone. It's another proof that it's best to get the PR and not just a transcription!

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          • #6
            The only thing is....some of my farmers also mined their land, so would have employed colliers. Or, the woman's name might have been Collier! Grrr.

            OC

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            • #7
              A collier can also be a charcoal burner, I have a direct ancestor who was a collier in coal-less Sussex though sometimes he was described as a woodsman.

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              • #8
                Thank you both - excellent explanations.

                Does anyone have information about survival rates for a motherless child given to a wet nurse? As I mentioned, she died about age 2 yrs. She had two older brothers who immigrated in their teens. The father remarried within a year of his first wife's death - the two subsequent wives died also

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                • #9
                  Age 2, she wouldn't have needed a wet nurse. You would need the death cert to see what she died of, it could have been anything, not necessarily neglect - remember there were no antibiotics then.

                  OC

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                  • #10
                    Regarding survival, I don't suppose one can generalise.
                    My 2 x great grandmother died within days of giving birth, but the baby must have been cared for somehow as she survived to be 75.
                    There was a firstborn elder sibling to the baby, who was 16 when the youngest was born and they lived in a close-knit village, but census records always show them as a family group and no mention of a wet-nurse, so I really don't know how she was reared.

                    Gwyn

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                    • #11
                      Gwyn's post has reminded me that my great great aunt, the youngest of eleven children, lived well into her nineties, even though her mother died at her birth in 1873. I expect a wet nurse was found locally, no need to live in, the baby could be taken backwards and forwards.

                      OC

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                      • #12
                        When I saw the death certificate (before I saw the note about the wet nurse), I wondered how would I ever find out about Jane Brown, the informant. When I saw the entry that she was the wet nurse, I wondered about the relationship she had with the child that she helped rear. How sad she must have been.

                        What a luxury to live in a country and in an age when maternal & infant mortality rates are low.

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