What do these abbreviations mean from this burial parish register?

[arthurk]

Arthur, the December 8th death seems to relate to a "Sarah Bronrne"

"Seems" is an appropriate word to use here: quite apart from there being no English word that I can think of containing the letter combination "nrn", or a name like "Bronrne", what you see here is one of the standard ways of writing a "w".

Arthur

[Flattybasher9]

"Bronrne" is a recognised surname, be it a derivation/misspelt or not.

Regards

Malky

[arthurk]

"Bronrne" is a recognised surname, be it a derivation/misspelt or not.

I'd be interested to see evidence of this, as I suspect the only examples you will find are the result of mistranscription or an OCR program that can't cope with certain typefaces. So "recognised" only in the sense that those who don't trust every transcription or OCR version recognise it as one of the spurious variants that they need to consider when looking for the real surname.

For example, when I put "Bronrne surname" (without quotes) in a search engine, the precis of the top result started "Dr. Bronrne, Boman thoUc Biihop of Kilmore". This is from an OCR'd volume on the archive.org website, but the original clearly says "Dr. Browne, Roman Catholic Bishop of Kilmore" - see https://archive.org/stream/historyirelandf02dalgoog#page/n10/mode/2up/search/bronrne

I also have yet to hear of the Boman thoUc church.

Arthur

[venelow]

Hi Andrew

Do you know anything about Sarah Brown?  Who are you hoping she might be?  If she is of higher rank in the County, say the mother of some important person, then B N could stand for Buried in the Nave.

I have looked through some of the other pages of the Register and have not found B N anywhere else. I did see that sometimes it is noted that a person has come from another place. So it could stand for Bridgenorth.

Venelow

[JenB]

The name of the person buried on the 8th December is Sarah Browne 

[california dreamin]

Hi all

I wondered if BN meant 'buried naked' looking at the Wiki link that someone suggested: Burial entries in parish registers were marked with the word "affidavit" or its equivalent to confirm that affidavit had been sworn; it would be marked "naked" for those too poor to afford the woollen shroud.

PS - Sorry Malky I too read the name as 'Browne'

[Flattybasher9]

I blame Samuel Pepys and the transcription of his diary relating to "Sir Thomas Bronrne", or "Sir Richard Bronrne" in the "London: To Thirty Miles Extent, from an Actual Perambulation" or the various persons with the surname "Bronrne" in the American records etc etc.

Regards

Malky

[Gadget]

Sorry, Malky. I also read it as Browne. It's fairly common in old records. 

Also - have we strayed slightly from the meaning of the B. N. on the other Sarah Brown's entry?



Gadget

[arthurk]

Also - have we strayed slightly from the meaning of the B. N. on the other Sarah Brown's entry?

Just a tad...

This is a part of the country that I don't know, but the suggestion of Bridgnorth seemed a good one to me - I've now looked at a map and see it's about 8 miles from Barrow.

Arthur