From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   I'm looking at a parish register for Audley, Staffordshire, England.   
   Archive reference       D3483/1/1 - page 113 I think; anyway, it covers   
   burials from 1645 to 1653 on the two pages (small village!), then some   
   births/baptisms 1653 to 1669.   
      
   The bit I'm looking at is about half way down the right-hand page.   
      
   I think it says   
      
   John Sonn of Thomas Henshall Borne the 13: of November   
   16?3: Raphe Sonn of Thomas Henshall   
           Bopne the 22:of June 1654   
           Tho: Sonn of Thomas Henshall Boxnt the.8   
           of July: 1658:   
      
   below that are three burials (sepulta/us erat), then two entries that   
   definitely have the word Baptised (or paptised) [in English].   
      
   What's surprising me is that (a) it's unusual for births rather than   
   baptisms to be recorded in such a register - sometimes birth dates as   
   well as baptisms, which is always nice to find, but I've never seen   
   _just_ births before - and (b) there's a fuzzy patch over the three   
   "Borne" words in the "John ..." paragraph, as if something has been   
   rubbed out and Borne inserted - in particular, the middle one looks like   
   it has "ap" where "or" should be.   
      
   (I can't tell for sure - I think it's a scan of a microfilm of ...)   
      
   Any thoughts? [Sorry, can't post the image - I'll have got it from one   
   of the two main providers, and they're fussy about release of their   
   material. But a search for John Henshall baptised in Staffordshire in   
   165x should find it. (I think he's my 9th great grandfather.)]   
      
   Seems odd to have three births - or baptisms - from the same father,   
   from three different years, listed in the same paragraph. My _guess_ is   
   that he asked a clerk to make the entry, and subsequently someone   
   changed the three words (possibly soon after, possibly years later). But   
   that's only a guess.   
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