Its been so long that we have had something to chew over I forgot the list again! SORRY! Kind Regards Roy LD Cox Family Historian Member of SA&NHS Member No. 1066 (And all That!) Web Site: www.coxresearcher.com/index.htm I also use www.archivecdbooks.com and www.localhistory.co.uk/ambra for my research -----Original Message----- From: Roy [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 10:27 AM To: 'mjcl' Subject: RE: [OEL] Meaning of Cuckold Light AH! I think I see the "Light"!!! This does make a lot of sense to me even though I have never heard of this item. The Cuckold Light Iron Candlesticks seem very familiar to me and I wonder if this refers to the shape of their structure, so that the emitted light is somehow detached from its main lighting or made to concentrate in a particular manner for a particular purpose and so is a separate light to the others, hence it being included in the inventory? I must also say that when I said "Cuckold being an Adulteress" - this is of course quite wrong as it describes a man who has been the victim of an adulteress - written in haste to be brief I'm afraid! Kind Regards Roy LD Cox Family Historian Member of SA&NHS Member No. 1066 (And all That!) Web Site: www.coxresearcher.com/index.htm I also use www.archivecdbooks.com and www.localhistory.co.uk/ambra for my research -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mjcl Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2006 1:04 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OEL] Meaning of Cuckold Light Hello Roy, I see where you are coming from on this! I'll give you a bit more context. It was grouped amongst a list of items in the kitchen:- "Four Heaters, a roasting Jack compleat, a Spit, a Cuckold Light Iron Candlesticks, a Bell Brass Mortar" All the best, Martyn ----- Original Message ---- From: Roy <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 5 December, 2006 4:03:31 PM Subject: Re: [OEL] Meaning of Cuckold Light Hazard a guess Martyn? Cuckold being an adulteress and a light, maybe a church window = A window that has replaced a matched collection or set?? Bit of sort of slang use as one definition is given of Cuckold "To make Cuckold of" Kind Regards Roy LD Cox Family Historian Member of SA&NHS Member No. 1066 (And all That!) Web Site: www.coxresearcher.com/index.htm I also use www.archivecdbooks.com and www.localhistory.co.uk/ambra for my research -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of mjcl Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 1:32 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OEL] Meaning of Cuckold Light >From a probate inventory, Aldingbourne, West Sussex, 1781 - .......... "a Cuckold Light" ............ Any ideas any one? All the best, Martyn ================= Web Page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ ================= ------------------------------- 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 ================= Web Page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ ================= ------------------------------- 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 ================= Web Page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~oel/ ================= ------------------------------- 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

Roy wrote: > Subject: RE: [OEL] Meaning of Cuckold Light > > AH! I think I see the "Light"!!! > > This does make a lot of sense to me even though I have never heard of this > item. > > The Cuckold Light Iron Candlesticks seem very familiar to me and I wonder if > this refers to the shape of their structure, so that the emitted light is > somehow detached from its main lighting or made to concentrate in a > particular manner for a particular purpose and so is a separate light to the > others, hence it being included in the inventory? > > I must also say that when I said "Cuckold being an Adulteress" - this is of > course quite wrong as it describes a man who has been the victim of an > adulteress - written in haste to be brief I'm afraid! > > > Kind Regards > Roy LD Cox It is possibly a miss-spelling of a cuculled lamp or hooded lamp, i.e. it has a reflector to concentrate the light. Cheers Guy -- Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. http://freespace.virgin.net/guy.etchells The site that gives you facts not promises! http://anguline.co.uk/ Anguline Research Archives