Difference between revisions of "Native Woman"

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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). (Bannu is now in Pakistan.)
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.

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 *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].
-*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).
+*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).  ([[Bannu]] is now in Pakistan.)
 *This [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249525160 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 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249623472 thread].