It usually means vide or see Wm Byass . in the Alumni Cantab. life is hard . soften it with a cat \\\=^..^=/// ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robyn Waymouth" <waymouth@ihug.com.au> To: "Rootsweb DEVON list" <DEVON@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, January 18, 2014 9:41 PM Subject: [DEV] Abbreviations in a footnote > > Greetings all, > > Can someone help me to interpret these abbreviations found in a > footnote to an article on the Victoria County History website? > http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=22947&strquery=byass#n333 > > B.L. Add. MS. 39348, ff. 258-9; _Alum. Cantab. to_ 1751, s.v. Wm. > Byass. > > The bit that I don't get is "s.v. Wm. Byass" as there's no mention of > Wm Byass in the article. He's the chap I'm interested in (his > descendent married into my Devon Waymouths, so it's nearly Devon > related). > > Many thanks, > > Robyn > Recovering from a vile heatwave in Melbourne > > ------------------------------------------ > The DEVON-L mailing list is co-sponsored by GENUKI/Devon > ( http://genuki.cs.ncl.ac.uk/DEV/ ) > and > the Devon FHS (http://www.devonfhs.org.uk/ ) > List archive for Devon can be found at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/DEVON/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > DEVON-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message