Daily Ancestorsine prole
Sine prole is Latin for "without issue," meaning the person had no children; it is the source of the abbreviations s.p. and d.s.p.
Sine prole means without offspring. You will see it written out in Latin pedigrees and inscriptions, and more often in shortened forms like s.p. (sine prole) and d.s.p. (decessit sine prole, died without issue).
The phrase usually concerns heirs. A person sine prole may have had children who died young, so the phrase is the compiler's statement about descendants, not proof that no child was ever born.
As seen in a recordEntry in a Latin pedigree
Joannes Ware, obiit sine prole 1761
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