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When a child was baptised, sometimes the mother was described as '''‘a native woman'''’. | When a child was baptised, sometimes the mother was described as '''‘a native woman'''’. | ||
| − | The following information is taken from the [[Mailing lists|India List]]: | + | The following information is taken mainly from the [[Mailing lists|India List]]: |
*The term 'native woman’ applied to Hindu or tribal women. More details in this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249564449 thread]. | *The term 'native woman’ applied to Hindu or tribal women. More details in this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249564449 thread]. | ||
Revision as of 06:08, 30 October 2009
When a child was baptised, sometimes the mother was described as ‘a native woman’.
The following information is taken mainly 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 was an area in Eastern Afghanistan,according to Thornton's 1844 Gazetteer, 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.
