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Means "Otherwise" - https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/orse - so yes, as per previous responses an alternative.

Etymology
Latin [Term?]
Adverb
orse (not comparable)
    (law, Britain) otherwise.
Adjective
orse (not comparable)
    (law, Britain) otherwise.

Christine.

Thanks Tony.

So he was in India as well and obviously enlisted before 1897.

I'm hoping to find something that might have more information on where in Cavan he is from or address/names of parents - anything that will help me narrow down if he is from one of my Dempsey families.

I'm not familiar with searching for military documentation (other than WW1 and WW2 attestation papers) but I'm guessing there should be enlistment papers or such like somewhere.  I did see on FindMyPast a possible entry and so need to get to the library to look at it.

Don't know if there are other places or types of records I could also search for him but we shall see what turns up.

Thanks again, every bit helps.

Christine.

Hi,

I've come across an entry on the UK, Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects, 1901-1929 for a James Dempsey who died 1901 at Commissie Drift, South Africa.

Interested to find a bit more information on him to see if he belongs to one of my Dempseys but unsure where to go next or indeed, if there are any other records that might hold further information.

He was with the 1 Highland Light Infantry, Private, Reg No. 4380.

Ta,
Christine.

Hi,

Hoping someone who has knowledge of usage of Latin in these registers might be able to assist me.

I have a marriage entry that on the NLI site is partially black and pretty much that side of the entry is illegible.  Today I was at PRONI and viewed the microfilm which was 99% clearer.

The entry reads ".... Dispensation in 4th to 4th Con. Of. ...."  Unfortunately the Catholic Church does not allow the making of copies from the microfilm without a letter from the Church which I don't have.

The abbreviation "Of." might be "af." for afinitatus meaning related through an earlier marriage of the two families.  I could not at the time make out what was after this if anything at all.  I may have misread it as two words when it may in fact just have been afinitatus.

My question is would there normally just be the one word afinitatus or would there be two words?

Sorry for such rambling but I can't find anything online to help me out.

If you want to look at the NLI image it's a marriage for William Dempsey & Rose Cleary (Latin names used) married July 9 1857, Aughnamullen West Parish, Co. Monaghan.

Many thanks,
Christine.