In message <[email protected]>, Keith Griffiths <[email protected]> writes >Continuing this thread, there is a memorial inscription on the floor of a >church which reads: > >".... DEPARTED THIS LIFE 21 JANVARY >Ao [i.e. 'A' followed by a superscript small 'o'] 1617 >ÆTATIS SVÆ 58 .." > >I am advised that this reads: > >".... departed this life 21 January in the year 1617 of his age of 58 >[years] ....". > >What year is this likely to be I wonder. calendar year 1617 age of the deceased was between 57 and 58 (like 16 going on seventeen.) the first 'year of his age' is birth to 12 months, the second 1 to 2 and so on. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

>>".... departed this life 21 January in the year 1617 of his age of 58 >>[years] ....". >> >>What year is this likely to be I wonder. > >calendar year 1617 I didn't look properly at the date - modern version of the year, 1618, so should be written 1617/8 >age of the deceased was between 57 and 58 (like 16 going on seventeen.) > the first 'year of his age' is birth to 12 months, the second 1 to 2 >and so on. -- Eve McLaughlin Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society