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Help with Gravestone Letters
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Caroline | Report | 7 May 2017 22:22 |
That does come up a lot in that time period but not sure it fits in here. |
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Allan | Report | 7 May 2017 23:16 |
Possibly a Mason's Mark? |
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JoyLouise | Report | 7 May 2017 23:41 |
So the previous query was mine - I'd forgotten I'd posted. |
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Kucinta | Report | 8 May 2017 20:56 |
I take it it's proper engraving, commensurate with the original carving of the gravestone, and not the equivalent of carving lovers' initials on a tree? |
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Eldrick | Report | 8 May 2017 21:10 |
The earliest operative lodge minutes are from the late 1600's, but speculative lodges didnt exist until 1717. Masons marks were generally cyphers and not letters. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 8 May 2017 22:23 |
Here's what I've come up with so far. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 8 May 2017 22:32 |
Eldrick, I hope, at least, it wasn't from someone else's tomb like the supposed 'Romeo and Juliet' balcony in Italy. |
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Kense | Report | 9 May 2017 09:21 |
Just seen on the church site that it is St Michael and All Angels Church Esh with Hamsteels. |
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Kense | Report | 9 May 2017 10:40 |
If the nearby churchyards have a similar stone from that time, it might be possible to confirm that theory. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 9 May 2017 10:52 |
None of the cathedral stonemasons believes it is a mason's mark. |
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JoyLouise | Report | 9 May 2017 11:35 |
Kense, I am often across at Lanchester where my bestie lives so I'll take a look there. |
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JoonieCloonie | Report | 9 May 2017 21:43 |
how about ... |
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JoyLouise | Report | 9 May 2017 22:18 |
That sounds entirely plausible, JoonieC, and not too far away from what I think it could have been - in my 22:23 post yesterday - but I think your explanation is better by far. |
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JoonieCloonie | Report | 9 May 2017 23:23 |
aha, it turns out (google says), after I made that up, that |
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JoyLouise | Report | 10 May 2017 07:33 |
Christ, the Saviour of Man (or even Christ is Man's salvation). |
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David | Report | 10 May 2017 11:04 |
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JoyLouise | Report | 10 May 2017 21:23 |
Why would it be unlikely to be Latin because he was a farmer, David? |
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David | Report | 11 May 2017 12:57 |
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JoyLouise | Report | 11 May 2017 14:06 |
I didn't think of bad intentions, David. I just wondered why you thought it unlikely. |
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David | Report | 11 May 2017 19:30 |
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