«a
female Child Buried
A female Child, aged about five months
of whom, the
name, & those of the parents, could not be obtained, but of the fact of
whose baptism, sufficient testimony was afforded, died on the seventeenth, and
was buried on the eighteenth of October, in the Year of our Lord, one thousand
eight hundred & twenty nine. By me
? Missionary Gaspé ?
Presents Elizabeth Shepherd
Ann Shepherd».
Noter l'identification très sommaire de cette fille et l'insistance
de l'officiant pour mentionner qu'elle a été baptisée; on se croirait dans un registre
de l'état civil catholique.
[Summary :
The church record for the burying of
an unnamed girl in Québec, Québec.]
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