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grantleydawn
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Stokenham Burial explaination needed
« on: Friday 26 June 09 21:59 UTC (UK) »
Could someone please explain what the following two extracts are saying;

They were transcribed for me from the microfiche of the Stokenham Parish Registers - Burials

14th Jan 1715 Nathaniel Shepperd gent was buried XPC :Affid was brought 19th.

16th Mar 1714 Margaret Shepperd was buried x  ??ford affid was brought 18th day

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Re: Stokenham Burial explaination needed
« Reply #1 on: Friday 26 June 09 22:17 UTC (UK) »
Hi Grantley

I wonder if it was short for Affidavit, I did a bit of googling and came up with this

http://www.devonheritage.org/Nonplace/Genealogy/BurialinWoollen.htm

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grantleydawn
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Re: Stokenham Burial explaination needed
« Reply #2 on: Friday 26 June 09 22:44 UTC (UK) »
Thankyou Ricky,

That explaination was totally unexpected.

That now leaves - where were they buried?

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Re: Stokenham Burial explaination needed
« Reply #3 on: Friday 26 June 09 22:51 UTC (UK) »
Hi Grantley

Well I hope its right, if not someone else on here might know more.

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ricky Smiley
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Harby,Garton,Drury,Duncombe,Booth,Catton,Barker, Kirkby, Wilson. Lincolnshire,
Also Murkin's, Jeffery,Pettitt,Carter, from Suffolk/Cambridgeshire boarder
Census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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Re: Stokenham Burial explaination needed
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 27 June 09 00:44 UTC (UK) »
They would have been buried in Stokenham Parish Church's burial ground, and the affidavit would have been sworn that they were buried in wool (shrouded) per the Burial in Woollen Act. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burying_in_Woollen_Acts
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grantleydawn
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Re: Stokenham Burial explaination needed
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 27 June 09 03:12 UTC (UK) »
Thankyou DOB7 for the extra explaination.

A have since found a transcript on http://www.foda.org.uk/main/projects/eighteenthcentury/stokenham/appendixa.htm stating Nath Shipherd bu 14 Jan 1715/6; wife Margaret bu 16 Mar 1714/5 at Ford.

I have also found a locality of Ford, 2.5km south of Chillington & 3km west of Beeson on the road to South Pool.

I am assumiing from that, Margaret was buried at the locality of Ford.

It would be nice to confirm what the XPC was short for.

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Re: Stokenham Burial explaination needed
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 27 June 09 12:25 UTC (UK) »
Margaret would have been buried at Ford Chapel I think. Not sure about the XPC, but assume PC stands for Parish Church.
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