I think you will find that an "infant" in the UK is defined as less than 7 years old, from a scholastic point of view. From a legal viewpoint it may
well be very different, ask a lawyer!!
Alec
Dave Ogden wrote:
>
> Sincere apologies for cross-posting.
> Background:-
> The Diocese of Lichfield have sold off the cemetery of St. John's Church
> in the town of Wednesbury, England, for redevelopment. Virtually all
> Monumental Inscriptions are to be broken up and the interred are to be
> removed. I've now finished recording and updating a list of MI's relating
> to the Churchyard.
> This Churchyard has occupants from all sections of social class (ie from
> the Titled, to merchants, to the poorest immigrant). Carrying on from this
> I am now indexing all occupant's, not only those who have the benefit of a
> MI, these total around five thousand.
> The Problem:-
> What constitutes an infant? I have burials of children with ages given in
> hours (ie there are four with ages ranging from one hour to thirty hours),
> days, weeks months and years, yet in the registers, in the same hand, and,
> in a number of cases death occurring on the same day, the age is given as
> infant (this being alongside an 'aged' indiviual). From the addresses
> given these 'infant's' again vary greatly in social class. I'm unable to
> find an unqualified definition despite an exhaustive search.
> Does anyone out there have any ideas to throw into the melting pot?
> TIA
> Dave
> ps. The raw data will be available to anyone who is interested in around a
> month's time (FOC) It's in the form of an Excel spreadsheet (office 97
> version) and gives full name, date of death, age at death and in some
> cases place of death if it was away from Wednesbury (very few in that
> category) and for those of you interested in American history/genealogy
> this churchyard contains twenty two members of the Earp family, distant
> relatives of Wyatt.
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