Maisie, It seems that the local masons were not too particular about their spelling. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wQ4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=amatures+auchencairn&source=bl&ots=wcVW241Zjs&sig=5tgml3rISF10n5ocTtYIK9gwQ3I&hl=en&ei=1wsmTti1K4XRmAXQvciFCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=amatures%20auchencairn&f=false shows other examples of their mis-spelling. HTH, Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: Maisie Egger To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:50 AM Subject: [genealogy] [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Fw: What does Ametures mean? I found this among the monumental inscriptions at Auchencairn cemetery, Kirkcudbrightshire. My Edinburgh published dictionary does not have a definition for Ametures. A search of Google showed nothing in context in the following. Does anyone know what the modern definition would be for Ametures? Inscription 9 Erected by Ametures of Auchencairn, to the memory of two unfortunate mariners, who (whose) bodies were found on Rascarol Shore, and interred in this place, on the 26th October 1863. Also of John Leachie, whose body was found on the same shore, and interred here on the 23rd June 1864. In oceans deepest darkest bed the secret slumbers with the dead. It caught my attention as three brothers in the one family (on my tree) from that general area died or were lost at sea with the years of 1823, 1832 and 1848. Maisie ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
Good sleuthing (sp?) Tim! Donna ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Sewell <[email protected]> Date: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:04 pm Subject: Re: [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] [genealogy] Fw: What does Ametures mean? To: Maisie Egger <[email protected]>, [email protected] > Maisie, > > It seems that the local masons were not too particular about > their spelling. > > http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wQ4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=amatures+auchencairn&source=bl&ots=wcVW241Zjs&sig=5tgml3rISF10n5ocTtYIK9gwQ3I&hl=en&ei=1wsmTti1K4XRmAXQvciFCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=amatures%20auchencairn&f=false > > shows other examples of their mis-spelling. > > HTH, > Tim > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Maisie Egger > To: [email protected] > Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:50 AM > Subject: [genealogy] [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Fw: What does > Ametures mean? > > > > > > I found this among the monumental inscriptions at > Auchencairn cemetery, Kirkcudbrightshire. My Edinburgh > published dictionary does not have a definition for > Ametures. A search of Google showed nothing in context in > the following. Does anyone know what the modern definition > would be for Ametures? > > Inscription 9 > Erected by Ametures of Auchencairn, to the memory of two > unfortunate mariners, who (whose) bodies were found on Rascarol > Shore, and interred in this place, on the 26th October 1863. > Also of John Leachie, whose body was found on the same shore, > and interred here on the 23rd June 1864. In oceans deepest > darkest bed the secret slumbers with the dead. > > It caught my attention as three brothers in the one > family (on my tree) from that general area died or were lost at > sea with the years of 1823, 1832 and 1848. > > Maisie > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to DUMFRIES- > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >
Thank you, Tim. A few on another list also sent me this link, which, of course, confirms what was on the headstone in Auchencairn cemetery. Perhaps those "ametures" or "amateurs" paid for the headstone out of their own pockets, and this is why I'm wondering if it was a benevolent group, community group like the Kiwanis and Rotary...or maybe they just got together to clean up the beaches when they discovered the bodies. Maisie ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Sewell To: Maisie Egger ; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2011 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [genealogy] [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Fw: What does Ametures mean? Maisie, It seems that the local masons were not too particular about their spelling. http://books.google.com.au/books?id=wQ4iAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA68&lpg=PA68&dq=amatures+auchencairn&source=bl&ots=wcVW241Zjs&sig=5tgml3rISF10n5ocTtYIK9gwQ3I&hl=en&ei=1wsmTti1K4XRmAXQvciFCg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDQQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=amatures%20auchencairn&f=false shows other examples of their mis-spelling. HTH, Tim ----- Original Message ----- From: Maisie Egger To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 6:50 AM Subject: [genealogy] [DUMFRIES-GALLOWAY] Fw: What does Ametures mean? I found this among the monumental inscriptions at Auchencairn cemetery, Kirkcudbrightshire. My Edinburgh published dictionary does not have a definition for Ametures. A search of Google showed nothing in context in the following. Does anyone know what the modern definition would be for Ametures? Inscription 9 Erected by Ametures of Auchencairn, to the memory of two unfortunate mariners, who (whose) bodies were found on Rascarol Shore, and interred in this place, on the 26th October 1863. Also of John Leachie, whose body was found on the same shore, and interred here on the 23rd June 1864. In oceans deepest darkest bed the secret slumbers with the dead. It caught my attention as three brothers in the one family (on my tree) from that general area died or were lost at sea with the years of 1823, 1832 and 1848. Maisie ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message