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Family History Documents and Artefacts => Graveyards and Gravestones => Topic started by: Vimeira on Thursday 28 January 16 10:36 GMT (UK)
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This may be the wrong place but it seemed the likeliest: I'm wanting someone who knows about old inscriptions. A datestone on a local house (Staffordshire) shows “M (new line) I . M (new line) 1763”. No shortage of space to force a new line and double first names were unusual in those days judging from the baptism register. What could the top-line M be apart from a name? Also, was I ever used for J?
Thanks!
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Do you mean written
M
I M
1763
Sometimes this is the format for a marriage stone where the top initial is the surname and the second row has the initials of the husband and wife's forenames.
Example here
http://www.brierleyyorkshireengland.net/History%20of%20Brierley%20Hall.html
I have seen I substituted for J in Latinised names beginning with J.
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That's brilliant, LizzieL - thank you so much! Will now trawl for a 1763 marriage!
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This is very cool. I want one. 8)
Except my house is of wood. ;D
Well my mum in law got us a London street sign made in our family name for xmas. won't post a pic cos that actual one would breach the privacy of the rest of my family haha but it's like this ...
Salute,
Janelle
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what town / village is the house in?
Of course if the bride and groom were from separate parishes, marriage could be in bride's parish and they might set up their marital home in the groom's parish.
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The only I to and M with his surname M I've found
Isaac Mason to Mark Berk at Cannock on 16 Aug 1763. Both were of the parish of Cheslandhay.
If the I was actually a J, there are a lot more possibilities
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Many thanks again, LizzieL! The house (now a pub) is in Gnosall and I've been looking for names that are found in the village after that date. Familysearch have Joseph Millington marrying Mary Keeling in Gnosall in 1762 and local baptisms show they had a daughter Sarah baptised in 1776. They must have been quite well to do, whoever it was.