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scuda
15-09-11, 13:32
I have a 1772 burial register entry (transcription), which gives the man's name followed by the word 'mort'. The same appears for a few other people around this time - what did it mean? By my reckoning 'mort' is 'dead' so would have applied to everyone in the burial register!

scuda
kiterunner
15-09-11, 13:38
Is it Scottish by any chance, Scuda? In which case it may refer to the "mortcloth" being hired.
scuda
15-09-11, 15:58
No, not Scottish - Berkshire (Reading).

scuda
scuda
17-09-11, 09:19
Do you think mort stands for mortuary? If so what would it imply - a sudden, unexplained death?

scuda
anne fraser
17-09-11, 09:53
I found this again from Scotland http://www.shottshistorygroup.co.uk/someofourresearch_extracts_f.htm
Olde Crone
17-09-11, 10:21
Wasn't there some kind of burial tax in force at the time?

OC
scuda
17-09-11, 10:22
That's interesting, Anne, thanks, but was there a similar system south of the border? I've googled and can't see anything about it in relation to England, so maybe it's something totally different.

scuda
Chris in Sussex
20-09-11, 17:28
Scuda

Don't know if you have already found the answer but have a look at this...

http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/DEVON/2009-08/1249774575

Page 122 of Ancestral Trials, I checked!

Chris
scuda
20-09-11, 18:59
Oh, well done, Chris, that looks quite likely. If so, then I suppose the implication is that anyone with 'mort' after their name was relatively well off, as they were paying a form of duty/tax. Very interesting, thanks.

Just thought, is this the tax you had in mind, OC?

scuda