Can anyone tell me what the intials s-w mean in the entry below.  I am assuming that Elizabeth Dalton was a spinster but the w is making me think she might have been a widow?  The parish is Wigton in Cumberland to make it even more confusing!   MARTINDALE Joseph batch aged 26 marr Elisabeth Dalton s-w aged 23 both of this psh by licence 1779Mar21 (Wigton

I suspect it will be single woman Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 06/06/2012 17:42, Chris Armstrong wrote: > Can anyone tell me what the intials s-w mean in the entry below. I am assuming that Elizabeth Dalton was a spinster but the w is making me think she might have been a widow? The parish is Wigton in Cumberland to make it even more confusing! > > MARTINDALE Joseph batch aged 26 marr Elisabeth Dalton s-w aged 23 > both of this psh by licence 1779Mar21 (Wigton