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English
Etymology
So called from the chrisom cloth used as a shroud for such children.
Noun
chrisom child (plural chrisom children)
- (Christianity) A child that died within a month after its baptism.
1892, Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer, Church-lore Gleanings, page 148:It is on a small stone in the chancel, underneath a brass figure of a chrisom child, and runs thus "Of Rog' Lee, gentilma' here, lyeth the son Bendict Lee Crysom, who soule ih'u p'dō."
1897, John Charles Cox, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Northampton, page 191:There are numerous entries in the burial register of CHRISOM CHILDREN.” The earliest one is “a chrisom childe of Francis and Elizabeth Dobson, ” who was buried on January 6th, 1622.
1904, R. M. Serjeantson, A History of the Church of St. Peter, Northampton, Together with the Chapels of Kingsthorpe and Upton, page 118:As is the case in most early registers, the records of St. Peter's contain frequent references to the burial of chrisom children.
2000, Bruce Gordon, Peter Marshall, The Place of the Dead, page 281:Since children with crosses may be older than a month and those without younger, there is simply no means of telling whether they were chrisom children in either of the two possible senses.