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PB===Private or Privately Baptized,,,,

Births Mar 1883 Keep Harriett Wallingford 2c 327


Deaths Mar 1883 KEEP Harriett 0 Wallingford 2c 227

Hi Lynski I have been told that she did die infancy

Thank you Sandy

Here's another example -

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/woodville/wood_bap55.htm

Have a look at some of the entries on the right hand side column

Did your Harriet Keep die in infancy?

Found this on the following website -

Baptisms were usually held in the Church of England on Sundays, but if a child was sickly and the parents feared death, the child might be baptised at any time. Some of these are recorded as "P.B." or Private Baptisms. Church law held that, in an emergency, almost anyone could perform a baptism in order to save the soul, even after the individual had died. These would often be recorded in the church register at a later date.


http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/LIN/churchrecs.html#Baptisms

On the Parish records for Harriet Keep it has

Baptisms Harriet Keep 31 Dece 1882 child of Frederick and Harriet of North Hagbourne at the side it has PB DEAD Can someone tell me what it is short for
Thank you Sandy