Talk:First white child
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[edit] People to investigate
- Hélène Desportes - "(7 July 1620 to 24 June 1675) was the first white child born in Canada, New France."
- I added this with a source but the dates are less than certain.
- Mr Stone, a local landowner and said to be the first white child born in New Zealand - Mount Albert, New Zealand
- Lucy Beare - the first white child born in South Australia on Kangaroo Island.[1]
I'm sure there will be other reports of first white children, some of which will be notable. violet/riga (t) 15:56, 9 August 2007 (UTC)
What about Snorri Þorfinnsson Snorri Þorfinnsson (likely born between 1005 and 1013) was the son of Þorfinnur Karlsefni and Guðríður Eiríksdóttir. Generally known to his contemporaries as Snorri Guðríðsson, as his mother outlived his father, he was purported to be born in Vinland, possibly making him the first European to be born in North America.
[edit] Title?
My two cents -- "white" seems kinda POV. I feel like a new title might be worth it. Zidel333 21:51, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
- The common term is "first white child" and was used at the time that such things were happening - modern POVs about it should be ignored as it is the term that was used. violet/riga (t) 22:11, 10 August 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Fathers and mothers
This seems kind of intuitively obvious, but it needs stating: These babies were almost certainly not the first children of white fathers born in each of the stated areas. As a rule, European men (explorers etc.) had been impregnating local women for ages, maybe generations, before an area was deemed suitable for colonisation. The "first white child" marks the point at which it was considered safe to bring the first white women to an area. Can any one source this? BrainyBabe 02:06, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
