IIGS™ Newsletter - July 1998
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IIGS™ Newsletter - July 1998
Here's a humourous little anecdote from the Wiltshire, England list that does much to explain how some "Unusual names" get entered into records.
"On Nov 12 1826 'Similia' PENNY was baptized. I can only imagine that this
was a mistake on the part of the registrar. The conversation, in the
Wiltshire accent, must have gone something like this:-
Vicar. "Whatz thiz 'ear girlz nayme?"
William PENNY (the father) "S'Amelia, yer worshipfullness!" (It's AMELIA!)"
Last Laughs
A collection of macabre Tombstone humour inscriptionsHere lies two babies,
dead as nits Who died
from getting ague fits,
They were too good to
live with we So God did
take to live with he
When the great judgement day arrives
and Joshua Fenton Newton does not emerge from this hole,
you will know that someone made a mistake
and buried me in the wrong hole.
From Great Torrington, England
Here lies a man who was killed by lightning
He died when his prospects seemed to be brightening
He might have cut a flash in world of trouble
But the flash cut him, and he lies in the stubble.
At Barrow-on Soar, Leicestershire, England on a man called Cave
Here in this grave there lies a Cave,
We call a Cave a Grave -
If Cave be Grave and Grave be Cave
Then reader judge, I crave
Whether doth Cave here lie in Grave
Or Grave lie in Cave;
If Grave in Cave here buried lie,
Then Grave where is thy victory?
Go reader and report, here lies a Cave
Who conquers death and buries his own Grave.
The smallest grave in Huntingdonshire,
The grave of Miles Button:
miles in length, miles in breadth
miles in depth and after all,
is only a button hole.