You will also occasionally see"pai incerto" of uncertain father ," pai incognito", of unknown father. .
I have seen at least three records that stated one of those, yet stated the paternal grandparents. You could only analyze that to means they didn't know which brother. Eric Edgar On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:38 PM, John Raposo <marra...@yahoo.com> wrote: > A "natural" child is one where the parents were not married to each other > bur neither parent was married to somebody else. There was no adultery > involved, only two people coming together without benefit of clergy. In > other words, they were free to marry each other if they so desired. An > illigitimat child is one where the parents were not married to each other, > nor could they be, since one or both were already married to somebody else. > That is my understanding. > > > On Tuesday, January 28, 2014 3:41 PM, David J Lima < > dave.j.l...@gmail.com> wrote: > In the CCA baptism records, I see that some are worded as "legitimate" > and others are worded as "natural", and the latter seem to omit the father. > What is the difference? why is the father omitted in the naturals? > > Thanks, > Dave > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores. > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores.