Burial Record - St Mary, Illingworth

[BumbleB]

I'm hoping that someone can decipher what exactly is written between "Alice" and "Thomas".

I do have a theory, but will await a response before I air it!

The burial was at St Mary, Illingworth - and Ovd. is an abbreviation for Ovenden.

[genjen]

Alice Ux  Thos Allenson?

Ux - meaning Wife.

Jen

[JenB]

I agree - Ux[or]. There is a contraction sign over the word which indicates it's an abbreviation.

added: it would more likely be ux[oris] which would translate as Alice wife of Thomas

[BumbleB]

Thank you so much, just what I thought.

[dobfarm]

There is no actual word for "of" in Latin, as it is implied by the form the noun takes. Depending on the situation, it would be either the genitive case, or the dative case.

Uxor - Wife

Eius- his

Ux eius or Uxor  - An 'i' written like a small 'j'  (1/4 left curve at the bottom of the 'i' as english 'j' as a half curve)

so 'Uxor eius' comes =Uxor'is (Looks like Uxor'js)

[JenB]

There is no actual word for "of" in Latin, as it is implied by the form the noun takes.

And in this case the noun has taken the genitive form, uxoris, which means 'the wife of'

This is incorrect! See reply 7 below.

The entry reads '.....Alice wife of Thomas'

(as in this example from Genuki) Debora uxoris Henrici Negus... (Deborah wife of Henry Negus....)
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/LatinNotes.html#burials

Alice uxor eius Thomas doesn't make sense. It would translate as  Alice his wife Thomas.

[dobfarm]

Depend's how the vicar enters the event

Examples

http://powys.org/lge/waterhouse/s_thorpe_reg.html

[GR2]

In grammatical terms, Alice is the subject and therefore in the nominative case (i.e. her name is in the main form as she is doing the action of the verb - Alice was buried - Alicia sepulta est). As she is in the nominative, so also is the word for wife as it refers to her. The correct form of the abbreviated word is, therefore, uxor.

All the rest of the entry is in English - the date, her name and her husband's name. Here ux(or) is just written as being shorter than the English "the wife of". If the entry were all in Latin it would read Alicia uxor Thomae Allenson.

[JenB]

Very many thanks GR2.

We were both wrong - neither uxoris or uxor eius.

Miss Charlesworth, my revered Latin teacher, would be ashamed of me!