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qbutterbee
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Hi all
Can anybody help me with the meaning of this word "merk". I have come across a site in the Shetlands that has this word in a sentence indicating possibly a land measure.
Thanking in Advance
Debbie from South Australia
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Cornwall:Moon,Blight,Smith,Stephens,Guy,Thomas,Bennetts,Glasson Barbary, Parkin, Ripper, Johns, Smitham(n), White Norfolk:Spurling,Woods, Jessup, Batley, Sharman Suffolk: Wright Oxford:Boddington Ireland: Ormsby, Phibbs,Wynne,Bingham,Hamilton Scotland:Broadfoot,Hannah,McKenzie London:Wade,Powell,Elston Surrey: Hornsby Yorkshire: Bairstow,Garth Devon: Richards, Webber, Dunn, Turner Wales: Thomas, Perrin Bedfordshire: White Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Ros Fornaro
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Hi Debbie,
Oxford dictionary give mark/merk as a boundary or a landmark.
Ros
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Bell Coatbridge Sct Cassels Dunbarton Lnk Sti Sct Heggie Lnk Sct Lusty Gls Eng Lnk Sct McLuckie Stirling Sct Moss Leek Sts Eng Vic Aust Pride Gls Eng Geelong Vic Aust Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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JAP
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Hi Debbie,
My immediate reaction was that a merk was a unit of Scottish currency.
You will find reference to Scots money on Scottish documents at:
Click Here
But I also found the following in their glossary which mentions it being also a measure of valuation of land:
mark or merk
a silver coin worth 13 shillings 4 pence (or two-thirds of a pound) Scots, and therefore just over shilling sterling at the time of the Union; common also as a unit of valuation of land, as in "the two merklands of ault extent of Glaur"
This is an interesting site on old money:
http://www.pierre-marteau.com/currency/coins/engl.html
Regards,
JAP
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qbutterbee
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Hi everybody
I wish to say thnak you very much for your replies re "Merk". I am now a little bit more knowledgable on land measures. Thank you again
Cheers Debbie from South Australia
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Cornwall:Moon,Blight,Smith,Stephens,Guy,Thomas,Bennetts,Glasson Barbary, Parkin, Ripper, Johns, Smitham(n), White Norfolk:Spurling,Woods, Jessup, Batley, Sharman Suffolk: Wright Oxford:Boddington Ireland: Ormsby, Phibbs,Wynne,Bingham,Hamilton Scotland:Broadfoot,Hannah,McKenzie London:Wade,Powell,Elston Surrey: Hornsby Yorkshire: Bairstow,Garth Devon: Richards, Webber, Dunn, Turner Wales: Thomas, Perrin Bedfordshire: White Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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