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    Wilkes_ml
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    Default Curious entry in burial register!

    19th June 1772 at St. Mary the Virgin, Great Bardfield, Essex

    "Henery WILKS the most offensive corps ever buried"

    I wonder if the vicar meant offensive whist alive ?

    And interestingly the line above that burial

    Henery & Susan HYMSS? "There was three at a birth & one survived" made me realise that was my first set of triplets I'd come across in parish registers, and must have been such a sad occasion to lose 2 out of 3 babies.

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    I love this kind of entry!
    At a similar date in a French (small village) parish register the priest had written the equivalent of "three twins born, one survived". I guess triplets were so rare in those days that he had never heard the word. Luckily it was my ancestress who survived!

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    strawberrymivvy
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    Love it! Now we can only imagine how he was so offensive - let the imagination run wild!

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