A question for the group: In the Annual Accounts of Bevis Marks for the years 1795-1800, the lists for the distribution of maçot during Pesah are helpfully broken down into Ad. (Adultos = Adults) and Cr. (Criaturas = Children). "Adults" received 8 lbs. for the period and "children" half that amount, i.e. 4lbs. For example in 5555 (1795) we have 1123 adults and 108 children in a total of 355 households. The problem is that the totals for the number of children seems low, suggesting there was a different criterion for defining who was a child for the purposes of maçot allocation. Can anyone throw some light on what the cutoff age might have been? Presumably infant children who were still breast-feeding were not allocated maçot, or were they? What age would the child have to be to start to qualify for the adult portion? (NB: The names in the first image are the suppliers. In the second image, the number of "adults" are in the first column next to the name of the head of the household, and "children" are in the second column.)