On Thursday, February 19, 2015 at 12:41:54 AM UTC-8, 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? > > > -- > athel Yes the M.I. means there is an actual inscription on the monument, tombstone, a wall plaque or something of that sort where the person is buried. So it would be a good source to get the exact quote of what that inscription reads.