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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: tillypeg on Friday 12 November 21 20:36 GMT (UK)
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I would appreciate some help with a couple of words in this parish register snip.
Newark Beckwith married Elizabeth Moon at St Leonard, Loftus in 1699. The marriage licence was dated 26 June 1699. The entry in the parish register (second one listed) reads
Newardus Beckwith Armiger et doma? Elizabetha Moon
? ? de Lythe.
Could the date of the marriage be June 28? The edge of the page seems to be creased.
Thanks,
Tillypeg
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The line over both words is a contraction mark, signaling there are letters missing.
So her name looks like 'dona' - possibly 'donna'.
The other word is the word the scribe uses for 'parish'.
He has written 'prchia', making 'parochia'.
(You can see this more clearly in the marriage entry below this one).
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Thanks for those suggestions goldie61. My Latin is very poor but I did wonder if doma was a contraction of domina which Google Translate tells me means Mistress. I have read somewhere that Mistress denoted a high status woman, and not necessarily a married one. Could this be the case here?
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I think ...
Newarchus Beckwith Armiger et dom(in)a Elizabetha Moon
[in?] p(aro)chia de Lyth
Newark Beckwith esquire and mistress Elizabeth Moon, in the parish of Lythe/Lofthouse
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Thank you for your response Bookbox. That all seems to fit now. Newardus was merely the transcription on FindMyPast, but Newarchus makes more sense when he was actually Newark.
Tillypeg