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Offline snuttall

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Help reading latin?
« on: Sunday 14 December 14 22:33 GMT (UK) »
There is a remark on a marriage in Haslingden, Lancashire in 1678 which is:

matrim'm fuit solem quoque inter eos apud Whitworth.

Whitworth is a place near Haslingden though it's also a common local surname as well.

Does anybody read Latin and might be able to help?

This isn't the original, it's somebody else's transcription so there may be spelling errors. When I google translate I get "at the marriage the sun, too, was between them at Whitworth"  :-\

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Re: Help reading latin?
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 14 December 14 22:42 GMT (UK) »
I'd guess that "solem" was short for "solemnized" in Latin .. so the marriage was also solemnized between them at Whitworth.

(maybe someone will agree/dissent to this!)

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Re: Help reading latin?
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 14 December 14 23:49 GMT (UK) »
I think you are pretty much on the money, Eadaoin.
I have seen similar entries in PR's, mostly for marriages, where it is noted in the register but took place elsewhere, usually because one or both of the parties was from that parish.
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Re: Help reading latin?
« Reply #3 on: Monday 15 December 14 00:10 GMT (UK) »
'The marriage was also solemnized between them at Whitworth'.

quoque = also, implying there was a ceremony in both places.