Non Conformist Burials

[MollyMay]

Can anyone enlighten me on the abbreviation used here.
From the England & Wales Non Conformist and non parochial Registers 1567-1936 (Anc)
for Mary Cotton burial December 1757 - it says Lambs Hill, but the original says Linfit

I would guess the m with the superscript d means married, but what is after

Thank you

 

[Bay Horse]

It looks like 'Sept_r' to me, with a raised cursive 'r'. I'm not convinced.

ETA Married Sister (long 's')? The reason I say that is because I can find 'M.d Br' on some of the male entries.

 

[MollyMay]

Thats what I thought but there is a dot above the second letter - could it be sister, not as in family but as in the church? - does that make sense?

 

[Bay Horse]

That's what I thought, @MollyMay Page 150 of the records, there's a Martha Oates, a married Sr of Whyke (his spelling of placenames isn't very good and his abbreviations inconsistent).

I don't know anything about the Moravian church. Mind you, I didn't know anything about Mennonites until last night.

 

[Bay Horse]

AI says yes, @MollyMay 'Sister' and 'Brother' are official titles for members, it says - historically the members organised into 'Choirs' based on gender and marital status. Makes sense. Also that some of the burial entries say 'from Choir House'.

 

[MollyMay]

I don't know anything about the Moravian church.

You and me both haven't even heard of Mennonites

Yes, I could find no consistency in the abbreviations, in that register and realised early on whoever wrote it, put the place names pretty much as he heard them.

 

[MollyMay]

Brilliant @Bay Horse, I saw those choir house references and wondered, but as they were not against any of the people I was looking for I didn't try and find what they meant.

 

[AnnB]

AI says yes, @MollyMay 'Sister' and 'Brother' are official titles for members, it says - historically the members organized into 'Choirs' based on gender and marital status. Makes sense. Also that some of the burial entries say 'from Choir House'.

Oh Jenny, I've just typed out a whole reply saying exactly that as there are all sorts of variations in the annotations including md Br as well as md Sr I was distracted by other things and you beat me to it x

 

[MollyMay]

Thank you Anne

We have all learned something new today.

 

[Bay Horse]

Sorry, m' dear.

Also, I've just found an Eli Throp while looking through the records. I wonder if he's one of mine?

 

[AnnB]

There's a whole Wiki page about the chapel at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulneck_Moravian_Church

 

[MollyMay]

Thank you Anne, that was an enlightening read x

 

[Bay Horse]

Absolutely fascinating place. Beautiful settlement.

I'm really hoping that 'Eli' is one of mine so that I have an excuse to visit it.