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Puer is Latin for boy or child, often used in baptism and burial entries for a young boy.
Puer means a boy, roughly from early childhood to the teens. Burial registers use it for young children, while infans is used for babies.
In some records puer also means a servant boy, so check the context if the child is not listed with his parents.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register entry
sepultus est puer Joannes, filius Petri
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