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From: Robert Bowen <>
Subject: [OLDWORDS] "mort" 1600 Wales
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 09:58:58 -0400

Does the word "mort" have any English meaning other than "dead". In a
handwritten 1601 Welsh manuscript documenting family pedigrees, the word
"mort" appears next to the names of two individuals in a list of 17
siblings. This suggests that the individuals were dead at the time of
writing, possibly dying in infancy. Based on many other documents however,
these two individuals were born in the 1580's but one emmigrated to America
in 1640 and lived for many years after that. There is evidence that the
other married in 1603, after the manuscript with the word "mort" was
written. Did the word "mort" have any other meanings in Wales around 1600,
such as "disowned" or "illegitimate" or "leasing property"?

Bob Bowen
Institutional Research
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