A friend let me know about a site with transcriptions from gravestones in cemeteries from all over the world and, having found some of my relatives, I was working through them, but I am intrigued by one of the abbreviations used.
There are: m/o; d/o; w/o; f/o; s/o; h/o; which are fairly clear, but I am perplexed by s/w. It can apply to both sexes, and a person can be w/o or h/o and s/w, for example.
I feel as though I'm missing something very obvious here; can anyone help, please?
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Thread: Transcriptions of gravestones
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20-10-2010, 10:45 AM #1pottokaGuest
Transcriptions of gravestones
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20-10-2010, 10:51 AM #2
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Would "second wife" fit in the context of the transcription?
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20-10-2010, 10:52 AM #3GeoffersGuestOriginally Posted by pottoka
Stone worn????
Suddenly widowed??? - Could this be a new competition, to think of a possible but most unlikely meaning?
I don't suppose the creator of these abbreviated transcriptions though to include something as simple as an index on this site?
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20-10-2010, 10:56 AM #4
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My second guess is "seen with", in reference to the first name being seen on the same tombstone as the other person mentioned in the transcription.
Ah, found an index:
s/w = stone shared withLast edited by AdeleE; 20-10-2010 at 10:58 AM. Reason: found index
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20-10-2010, 11:00 AM #5pottokaGuest
Unfortunately not, as it can be a man or a child. I'll find some examples.
The site covers the world as I said, and this particular abbreviation seems to be peculiar to one transcriber in Lincolnshire! Her email address is on the site, so I could write to her. I just thought that you clever lot would know.
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20-10-2010, 11:03 AM #6pottokaGuest
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20-10-2010, 11:06 AM #7
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It was on one of the cemeteries in Quebec, Canada on the interment.net website. Just happened to come across it while googling.
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20-10-2010, 11:15 AM #8pottokaGuest
Clever you and thank you. That's the site I'm using.
For anyone interested in how the abbreviation works, here's an example:
Graves, Elizabeth, d. 16 Jun 18?5, age: 15yr, d/o and s/w Robert and Emma Graves
Graves, Emma, d. 20 Jan 1914, age: 88yr, w/o Robert Graves. m/o Elizabeth Graves. s/w both.
Graves, Robert, d. 10 Apr 1879, age: 39yr, “of Linwood”, h/o Emma Graves. F/o Elizabeth Graves. s/w both
Saint Oswald's Churchyard, Blankney, Lincolnshire
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