From: G6JPG@255soft.uk
On Fri, 23 Oct 2020 at 12:33:31, Jenny M Benson
wrote:
>On 23/10/2020 12:03, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
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>> However, the one I think are my ancestors says (under Mensis Augusti
>>[month of August]):
>> Johannes filius Johannis Mason Alieni
>><>____________________________3º.
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>> I am pretty sure "Alieni" just means "of elsewhere" - but why? Most
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>>Greave, Hinderton, Tranmore, and Holt Hill. Sure, one might guess the
>>clerk didn't know, but hang on: if you're having a baby son baptised
>>(especially one named after you, so quite likely the first one), it's
>>not like just having your passport stamped - it takes a while; surely
>>someone would have asked? (Would they even _do_ a baptism for a stranger?)
>
>Can't imagine a Priest refusing to baptise a child.
(There was a storyline in "The Indian Doctor" - set in the 1960s in a
Welsh mining village - where he refused until the father married the
mother. I thought it not too creditable at the time; it was part of a
storyline where the vicar was a baddie for a different reason. But I
could just about believe such a refusal if there was doubt whether the
father was being honest about some important detail.)
>
>One of my ancestors was described in a Baptismal record, as "a poor
>travelling man" so maybe John Mason was of no fixed abode and didn't
>know himself where he was actually "from."
>
It's certainly possible JM was of no fixed abode, but then I'd have
expected something like your example; "Alieni" suggests something
definite.
Anyone else come across it, and if so what were the circumstances?
--
J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf
Apologies to [those] who may have been harmed by the scientific inaccuracies
in this post. - Roger Tilbury in UMRA, 2018-3-14
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