From: watt.tyler@gmail.com   
      
   On 16/01/2021 01:47, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   > 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.   
   >   
      
   Is it possible that they were all baptised at the same time, and the   
   births all then recorded at that time?   
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   Roger   
      
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