Meaning of chrisom child | Babel Free

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A child that died within a month after its baptism.

Examples

“It is on a small stone in the chancel, underneath a brass figure of a chrisom child, and runs thus "Of Rog' Lee, gentilma' here, lyeth the son Bendict Lee Crysom, who soule ih'u p'dō."”

“There are numerous entries in the burial register of CHRISOM CHILDREN.” The earliest one is “a chrisom childe of Francis and Elizabeth Dobson, ” who was buried on January 6th, 1622.”

“As is the case in most early registers, the records of St. Peter's contain frequent references to the burial of chrisom children.”

“Since children with crosses may be older than a month and those without younger, there is simply no means of telling whether they were chrisom children in either of the two possible senses.”

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