1708 Latin burial extract 12

[Janet Waterhouse]

Hi,

I'm stuck on one word;

Elizabetha Burgh ? 17th day of July.

I've a feeling the word is denoting a spinster or unmarried woman, but I cannot find this Latin word.

Janet

[horselydown86]

I make it:  Lanifica

The Latin dictionaries give the definition as (adjective):  woodworking, spinning, weaving

[Bookbox]

Agreed. A common translation is 'wool-spinner'.

[Janet Waterhouse]

Thank you for forwarding a translation, and confirming. 

However, it does seem strange that this is only the second time an occupation, male or female, has been mentioned in over an hundred years of burial entries for this parish.  The other entry was for the burial of a vicar.

Janet

[Bookbox]

From what you say, it does appear to be unusual. But I can't read the word as anything else. Parish registers do contain many inconsistencies and oddities.

Is the entry in a different hand from others at the same period?

Was the word perhaps added to differentiate between two Elizabeth Burgh in the parish with different occupations?

I've a feeling the word is denoting a spinster or unmarried woman.

Do you have examples of that in this particular register? If so, which Latin word is used?