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Native Woman
When a child was baptised, sometimes the mother was described as ‘a native woman’.
The following information is taken from the India List:
- The term 'native woman’ applied to Hindu or tribal women. More details in this thread.
- There was also a term ‘Bunnoo native woman’. Bunnoo or Banoo or Bunnoa is an area in Eastern Afghanistan, but a researcher advised more often the term implied a Muslim (of any northern origin).
- This thread discussed a possible Persian/Parsee connection
- If there was a marriage in a church, the wife had become a Christian. More details in this thread.
- This thread showed how one researcher found details of an Indian mother from her son's school record.