21/09/2026
A calendar of lost & found children for my ATC group in Aberdeenshire. This month's prompt was Foundling, which in turn prompted me to delve into hospital and parish records, based on the Oxford dictionary definition of the word -- foundling, rogue, vagabond. I created the subsequent 12 hand-sewn booklets based on two things: the names given to foundlings at baptism, and how those names relate to geographical place. I kept the Christmas babies (one from Devon and one from Madras, India) for myself, so this post is the page by page closeup of one complete booklet. ❄️