Daily Ancestorpuella
Puella is Latin for girl, used in baptism and burial entries for a young girl.
Puella means a girl or young woman. Burial registers use it for a girl who died young; the boy's word is puer.
When a register says only puella with no name, the child may have died at or soon after birth. Look for a matching baptism a few days earlier.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register entry
sepulta est puella Maria, filia Joannis
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