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Family History Documents and Artefacts => Graveyards and Gravestones => Topic started by: SiGr on Sunday 28 April 19 17:50 BST (UK)
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Hello, can anybody please help with this word which is in a kind of Pugin-Style Gothic script ? The preceding word is, "Anne" and then after it states "of Richard Janion Nevill of Llangennech Park". It is in English but in a graveyard in Wales so there is a slight possibility that this one word is Welsh - albeit, unlikely. Anne was the wife of Richard and died after him so it could be 'widow' or 'relict' but it clearly isn't.
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Actually I think it might be widow.
In the middle of the word there's clearly a 'd', which looks to have 'i' before and 'o' after. That leaves the characters at the beginning and end of the word, which are the same. It is a tricky script, though - are there any other examples of 'w' in the inscription?
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Hi, and thank you for your swift comment. The whole text reads,"Sacred to the memory of Richard Janion Nevill of Llangennech, Born 20 Nov 1785 died 14 January 1856 + Anne ********* of Richard Janion Nevill Born 6 July 1781 Died 5 June 1863" So, sadly no 'w' at all. Saying which, I agree the first and last letters appear similar and the middle three look like 'ido'. I can't think of anything else, so I think you might have solved this. All other comments/suggestions welcome from other members. And 'thank you' to 'arthurk'.
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Prompted by 'arthurk', I just checked online for a Pugin script and found the attached. So, it is a 'w' and the word is 'widow'. I would never have taken that as a 'w' without the suggestion. So 'TVM'. Query closed.
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I know the puzzle has now been solved, but I saw this nice example of the Gothic 'W' in a church window today.
'.....thou hast been faithful over a few things......' (scroll right for the all-important word)
If you saw the word 'few' in isolation it would perhaps take a little time to work out what it said :-\
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Thank you for that church window scroll - it provides confirmation of what was, after all, just a pdf of a font. I'm sure many people over the years felt that Pugin was 'stretching' things a bit with that 'w'...
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Just rotating the image from reply #4
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Thanks Arthur - it was the right way round when I posted it. No idea what's happened in the meantime!
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No problems :)