On 19/02/2015 09:48, Anne Chambers wrote: > Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote: >> I have been studying R. B. Freeman's book "Darwin Pedigrees", which >> contains a great deal of interesting >> information about the Darwin, Wedgwood and Galton families. The first >> part of it reproduces tables prepared by >> Henry Farnham Burke (grandson of the Burke of Burke's Landed Gentry) >> in 1888. An abbreviation that occurs >> often in these is M.I., for example, >> >> Susanna. Bapt. 26 >> Nov. 1781 at >> Westborough. >> Died 21Sept. >> 1846, aged 64, >> Bur. at West- >> borough. M.I. >> >> I can understand all that apart from the M.I. The answer may be hidden >> in Freeman's text, but I haven't found >> it. Searching at Google yields lots of stuff about Michigan. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> > Memorial Inscription ? > > Memorial Inscription does seem to be the explanation. The book is here http://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1984_DarwinPedigrees_A303.pdf If you look at p8 of the book (which is p13 of the PDF) There is an entry for Erasmus Darwin with "M.I. in Lichfield Cathedral)". On the following page the M.I. is separated by several spaces from the place name.

On 2015-02-19 10:01:44 +0100, john <[email protected]> said: > On 19/02/2015 09:48, Anne Chambers wrote: >> Athel Cornish-Bowden wrote: >>> I have been studying R. B. Freeman's book "Darwin Pedigrees", which >>> contains a great deal of interesting >>> information about the Darwin, Wedgwood and Galton families. The first >>> part of it reproduces tables prepared by >>> Henry Farnham Burke (grandson of the Burke of Burke's Landed Gentry) >>> in 1888. An abbreviation that occurs >>> often in these is M.I., for example, >>> >>> Susanna. Bapt. 26 >>> Nov. 1781 at >>> Westborough. >>> Died 21Sept. >>> 1846, aged 64, >>> Bur. at West- >>> borough. M.I. >>> >>> I can understand all that apart from the M.I. The answer may be hidden >>> in Freeman's text, but I haven't found >>> it. Searching at Google yields lots of stuff about Michigan. >>> >>> Any suggestions? >>> >>> >> Memorial Inscription ? >> >> > Memorial Inscription does seem to be the explanation. > > The book is here > http://darwin-online.org.uk/converted/pdf/1984_DarwinPedigrees_A303.pdf > If you look at p8 of the book (which is p13 of the PDF) There is an > entry for Erasmus Darwin with "M.I. in Lichfield Cathedral)". On the > following page the M.I. is separated by several spaces from the place > name. Yes, it's clearly that (on the basis of the example for Erasmus Darwin). In all the cases I've looked at, M.I. appears right after mention of the place of burial. Thanks. -- athel