I have found a number of burials in Essex for "Nurse children" (example: Roydon in the 1600s). I have seen an article on this but it still did not really explain how the children came from London to certain parishes in Essex or why. Can anyone help?
Another reference in a parish was the burials of some "chrysome" children. I have just found this: A child who has died before it's mother was "churched" and the Chrisom cloth (placed on the child at the time of it's baptism becames it's shroud. The entry in the parish register was then for a "Chrisom child" [source: The local historians glossary of words and terms by Joy Bristow]
I don't remember seeing these terms in any Lincolnshire parish register.
