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The following views are mainly taken from the India List *The term’ term 'native woman’ applied to Hindu or tribal women. More details in this [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249564449 linkthread].
typos and change 'link' to 'thread' to be more accurate
When a child was baptised, sometimes the mother was described as a '''‘a native woman’woman'''’.
The following information is taken from the [[Mailing lists|India List]]:
*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 [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249525160 linkthread] 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 linkthread].*This [http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/INDIA/2009-08/1249833646 linkthread] showed how one researcher found details of an Indian mother from her son's school record.
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