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Offline StormPetrel

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Fireplace
« on: Sunday 13 March 22 10:47 GMT (UK) »
Not strictly genealogy related but I have these symbols carved in my fireplace. Can somebody please tell me their meaning?

They are a capital letter T followed by a backwards C, a backwards S and then a capital M.

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Re: Fireplace
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 13 March 22 10:58 GMT (UK) »
Initials of the person who created it or of a couple who lived there perhaps.

Is it a very old fireplace, what material is the carving in?
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Re: Fireplace
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 13 March 22 11:15 GMT (UK) »
Thanks for your reply. Why are the C and S backwards?

The house is around 1700, I assume the fireplace is the same age. The material is some kind of brick.

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Re: Fireplace
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 13 March 22 12:19 GMT (UK) »
Are you able to add a photograph of this inscription, which might be more helpful in obtaining an answer to your question?  :-\
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Re: Fireplace
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 13 March 22 12:46 GMT (UK) »
Let's hope this works...

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Re: Fireplace
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 13 March 22 17:47 GMT (UK) »

Hi,

Could it be mirror writing,

M S C T

That doesn't explain what it stands for though.

Does anyone know when the letter S started being written  like that?

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Re: Fireplace
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 13 March 22 18:49 GMT (UK) »
The only thing I could find when Googling is the C and S may be from the Latin alphabet. But still not sure what it would actually mean if that is the case.

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Re: Fireplace
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 13 March 22 19:36 GMT (UK) »
Not to mention the obvious dot after the T

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Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

Newcastle-on-Tyne/Durham (Northumberland):- Harrison, Jude, Kemp, Lunn, Mellon, Robson, Stirling

Kettering, Northampton:- MacKinnon

Canada:- Callaghan, Cumming, MacPhee

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Re: Fireplace
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 13 March 22 19:54 GMT (UK) »
Yes, that surely has a meaning.
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