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UK, England, Middlesex—Parish Registers, 1539–1988 [Part B][MSP4-D3Y]

Andi Durbin
Andi Durbin ✭
September 3, 2021 edited August 20, 2024 in Get Involved/Indexing

Share batch https://www.familysearch.org/indexing/batch/336611ce-0caa-4f6e-8e0d-82b98bd61e59 what is the symbol in the first line?


Thanks. Andi

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  • Barbara Wernert_1
    Barbara Wernert_1 ✭
    September 3, 2021 Answer ✓

    My understanding is that "symbol" is short-hand for Servant.

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  • Abraham Kossi Houetognon
    Abraham Kossi Houetognon mod
    September 3, 2021

    I can see F

    In any case, you are not compelled to index whose inscriptions you can't see at all. Please, if there is a batch difficult to see, kindly do return it and go for a clearer one.

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  • AThayneGreen
    AThayneGreen ✭✭
    September 3, 2021

    All other relationships are spelled out, wife, son, daughter. It looks like an s with some other squiggles. I'd lean toward its meaning being "servant" since the surnames are different. It appears in a couple of other lines also.

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  • Andi Durbin
    Andi Durbin ✭
    September 3, 2021

    Yes, I think servant as well. Just wanted to see if anyone else had seen it before. Thanks for your response.

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  • Alan Chard
    Alan Chard ✭
    October 14, 2021

    I have just come to review this same batch, and was puzzling over that symbol. I looked through the reference images and found an entry on the -5 image, fifth down the page reading . . .

    Robart symbol unto Mr Bayley . . .

    That is good enough to accept the symbol as 'servant' as I've seen many other entries from this period refering to the deceased person as servant to another person. Hope that helps.

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