Genealogy Chat

Search me Heather! Trouble is - finding good, accurate transcribers who like to work for nothing! They don't only do Norfolk though - wherever they can obtain original documents or films/fiche of the originals I think. All I know is - it keeps him off the streets and I always know where to find him - bent over his screen muttering a lot! lol Regards Chris

Norfolk parishes - woo hoo - and not just the ones on the Norfolk Archives Transcriptions site??????? Im off to have a look. Oh, doh, its the Dart series and Ive got all those parishes. Please say one day the lot will be transcribed.

Very many thanks for all your efforts. My husband, Pete, is the Chairman of the Parish Records Transcription Society - which does what it says on the tin! He is doing one at the moment and the entry reads: 1732 - April 10 William Hall claudipes of Stockbridge and Mary Walton The next one clearly says Tailor, and there are others. They are quite clear to read but this is a word he has never come across before. I think I said it was a Baptism register, but actually it is marriage (sorry - wasn't paying attention, as usual. LOL) The Parish is ARKSEY, near Doncaster, Yorkshire. Thanks again for your efforts. He has to put what it actually says (not a translation) but he was just interested! By the way - (bit of salemanship here) their website is worth a look - particularly if you are looking for Norfolk parishes as their transcriptions are available on CDs.Their site is prtsoc(.)org(.)uk without the brackets. Chris

claudipes is latin for 'to limp' - It presumably shows a physcial condition (i.e. a cripple) rather than an occupation. Rob

Is it something we can look up on-line, or could you scan it and e-mail? Dea x

I think you must have misread it. Can you post the complete entry to see if we can make any sense of it? Do parish registers normally include occupations? I don't remember seeing them before.

Sorry Chris, no I haven't heard of it - with the ending us it sounds more like a name or state/condition than an occupation to me?? The nearest I could come up with would be 'claviger' which I believe was a servant of some type. Sorry I can't help - perhaps someone else will know the answer. Dea x

In Doncaster, Yorkshire, Parish Register for 1732. It might possibly be spelt claudipUs rather than Es, but it looks like Es!! Have you heard of this before? Chris

Where have you found this - are you certain that is what it says? Dea x

Can anyone tell me what occupation CLAUDIPES would be? I tried googling - but the answers all came up in Latin! I would appreciate any English answers. Many thanks Chris