can anyone tell me what the letter "p" in the left hand margin of christening records means
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It depends on the period. It can mean private, for privately (ie at home) baptised.
Or it can mean pauper - in the period when taxes were collected on baptisms and the vicar had to justify handing over less money. Paupers were exempt.Phoenix - with charred feathers
Researching Skillings from Norfolk, Sworn from Salisbury and Adams in Malborough, Devon.
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