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Member Since: January 2007 Posts: 2,653 Send Message	Artbeat	Report	15 Feb 2008 14:37
	While searching parish records for an appropriate baptism i came across a possible, but it stated the following. Ann harding c17.9.1682 postima daughter of robert. Does postima mean that her father died before she was born as there is death of a robert harding one month before her baptism. richard.
Member Since: November 2003 Posts: 28,261 Send Message	KathleenBell	Report	15 Feb 2008 15:00
	I would have expected the word to be posthumous but I would imagine that it means the same and that the child was born after Richard died. Kath. x
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 768 Send Message	Margaret	Report	15 Feb 2008 15:04
Member Since: April 2003 Posts: 768 Send Message	Richard, my Latin is limited to say the least but I would say yes, the child died after the Father's death. M. Steer
Member Since: January 2007 Posts: 2,653 Send Message	Artbeat	Report	15 Feb 2008 15:14
	Thank you kathleen and margaret. richard.
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 3,219 Send Message	Sue in Somerset	Report	15 Feb 2008 21:02
	The word is ending in a because the child is female I think. Whoever wrote the register was using the important words in original Latin forms which would have altered to match gender. Sue