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14-07-15, 20:10
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nativus
I have a burial in 1761 and after the man's name is the word "nativus".
My Latin dictionary treats this word only as an adjective and suggests "created; inborn, native, natural". However, I think it is being used as a noun here. Any ideas what it signifies here? 
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14-07-15, 20:13
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Hmm, I have found this:
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=native Perhaps it just means that he was born in the parish (which is correct). But why put that for him and no-one else?
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14-07-15, 21:50
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Can you link to the PR image, please, Elizabeth?
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15-07-15, 06:48
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It's a Hertfordshire parish not online, Kate. I've been through all my print-outs and have found a couple of years where the vicar wrote this by most of the burials, and I now think it just means "born in the parish".
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22-07-15, 21:32
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Sometimes vicars seem to have developed their own pedantic eccentricities when writing in the registers, especially those who'd had a sound classical education. In one of the marriage registers I've used a lot, there was a phase when the incumbent recorded "inmate" for the occupation/profession of most of the brides. It would seem he was recording that they were a resident native of the village, as opposed to others who'd only recently taken up residence.
He was quite pedantic about adding a marginal note in the register to record the actual date when he added a batch of marriages and on one occasion commented on an error he'd made, caused through writing "in the dusk of the evening." Jay
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