by davdj0nsn » Sun Nov 04, 2012 3:46 am
I recently searched for an ancestor in the London, England, School Admissions and Discharges, 1840-1911. In these records, there is a column called "Whether exemption from Religious Instruction is claimed", and it mostly contains two and three letter codes: mainly R.C. and C.S.B., but there is one F.B. on this page. Does anyone know what these mean? I speculate that R.C. stands for Roman Catholic, though it would be a real surprise to find that any of my ancestors belonged to that denomination.