1560s Parish Register

[scuda-j]

Another Pittman entry in the Stow on the Wold registers where I can't decipher the first name, so I'd appreciate your thoughts. This is from 1563/4, and a burial (I think) - it's the 4th line up.

Jane

[scuda-j]

And a section from just above the previous one, for comparison.

[Redroger]

A tip which might be helpful. I recently needed to viewe the parish registers for Gillingham Dorset, which date back to this period. When I looked at the earlier entries I  couldn't read a thing. So I advanced to a period where I could read them fairly comfortably (c1730) and then worked backwards. Working like this I was successful and was able to work through (slowly0 to the beginning.

[veeblevort]

Hi scuda-j

It' s definitely a burial.

Having great difficulty with the names on that line.

I'm looking at a word which appears to be 'Fam', if it is, then
this may be the burial of an unmarried daughter:

'sepult fuit ? F[ili]am ? Pittman, i.e
'was buried ? daughter of ? pittman'.

[scuda-j]

I'd love to think you're right, veeblevort, and it's the father's name that is given. This is the oldest entry I have found for the Pittmans in the Stow registers, and the father's name would be really useful - that depends on someone being able to make it out, of course.

Roger, I do sometimes work backwards through registers, not so much to get used to the writing, but just to start with the section that is going to be of more immediate use, but I know what you mean, thanks for the tip.

Jane

[Redroger]

It worked for me Jane.

[Ermintrude46]

The line above seems to show two names, and the entry you're interested in is a similar length.  Could it be two separate names for two separate burials on the same day, with the sqiggled being an abreviated 'et'?  Then it could be quite a short forename - eli or eliz Pittman?  Not sure if any of the other entries are showing the father of any infant burials, and for that period you would expect a good third/quarter of the burials to be babies at least, I would have thought?
Ermy

[PrueM]

Do you have a male first name, followed by "&", followed by "Eliz Pittman"?  That's what it looks like to me (not that I have looked at it for very long!)

Prue