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Family History Documents and Artefacts => Graveyards and Gravestones => Topic started by: mikegunnill on Monday 31 August 20 09:34 BST (UK)
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I have the following grave inscription:
<< Oh! that I might join our *** missing words*** Maker >>
Has anyone come across this inscription before please?
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Without the whole of the inscription it is a little difficult to try and trace what it may have come from.
What does it start with? Do you have a picture of the inscription or can you tell us where this can be found?
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Without the whole of the inscription it is a little difficult to try and trace what it may have come from.
What does it start with? Do you have a picture of the inscription or can you tell us where this can be found?
It comes from the grave of Reginald Fairfax Wells and his second wife Reska Fairfax Wells. The inscription is between the two names/dates. I have provided all the inscription but two words are not readable. I wonder if anyone had come across this same inscription before. It is in Littlehampton, Sussex. The picture is not very good but the only one possible.
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Can you provide a link to the picture or say where it can be found and what the dates are please?
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Can you provide a link to the picture or say where it can be found and what the dates are please?
https://billiongraves.com/grave/Reginald-Fairfax-Wells/19329613
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The word before Maker is "beautiful"
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The word before Maker is "beautiful"
I thought: Oh! that I might join our ????
beautiful maker
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Is this of any help?
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Is this of any help?
Do you make the word " first " ??
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It could well be and it would make sense. So you would have:-
Oh! that I might join our first beautiful Maker
I wonder whether it is from anything or is just something that was made up either by the couple or any relative who had the gravestone done.
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It could well be and it would make sense. So you would have:-
Oh! that I might join our first beautiful Maker
I wonder whether it is from anything or is just something that was made up either by the couple or any relative who had the gravestone done.
I was told the inscription was done at the time of the first death, Reginald. So it would be done by his wife. I guess it could be something she made up. I hadn't thought of that.
Thank you for your help.
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My input
Oh! that I might join our just beautiful Maker.
Malky
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My input
Oh! that I might join our just beautiful Maker.
Malky
Yes that works.
Thx
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I'm afraid it doesn't work for me. Having seen the image, I can't see an 'M' or even an 'm' at the start of the last word, nor can I see a 'j' in either of the words thought to be 'join' and 'just' (and the first letters of those words don't look the same).
My best interpretation is "Oh! that I might row on that beautiful lake".
This might be a line from a poem or some other literary allusion, but if so, I haven't been able to find it. (I did find "row on that beautiful lake" in an English version of Stendhal's "The Charterhouse of Parma".) Perhaps it's just a saying that the couple used between themselves.
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I'm afraid it doesn't work for me. Having seen the image, I can't see an 'M' or even an 'm' at the start of the last word, nor can I see a 'j' in either of the words thought to be 'join' and 'just' (and the first letters of those words don't look the same).
My best interpretation is "Oh! that I might row on that beautiful lake".
This might be a line from a poem or some other literary allusion, but if so, I haven't been able to find it. (I did find "row on that beautiful lake" in an English version of Stendhal's "The Charterhouse of Parma".) Perhaps it's just a saying that the couple used between themselves.
This is interesting and at first I dismissed your idea. Then I remembered they travelled a great deal in South Africa and Australia. I think it could be a reference to a happy memory. Thank you