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Offline Rakiura John

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Tombs, xxx?, & Headstones
« on: Monday 05 July 21 05:43 BST (UK) »
Hi. The attached extract from a 1762 entry in Crailing Session Minutes mentions the need to carry off the Tombs, Throughs? and Headstones from the old churchyard and erect them in the new churchyard. What are Throughs? Perhaps the clerk meant Troughs? If so, what was a Trough, just a container kept onsite for watering horses or grave plantings? - unlikely as such an ancillary item surely wouldn't be placed between "Tombs" and "headstones". Any ideas?

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Re: Tombs, xxx?, & Headstones
« Reply #1 on: Monday 05 July 21 05:53 BST (UK) »
It could be "Wrought" [i.e. items worked or manufactured] but there is no "t" at the end of the word.

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Re: Tombs, xxx?, & Headstones
« Reply #2 on: Monday 05 July 21 08:28 BST (UK) »
"Throughs". A through was a large slab of stone laid over a grave.

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Re: Tombs, xxx?, & Headstones
« Reply #3 on: Monday 05 July 21 09:39 BST (UK) »
Ah. Thank you
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