adm. | admitted |
ae., aet. | aged |
aft. | after |
als. | alias |
ante | before; by |
app. or appt. | apparently |
b. | born |
bap., bapt., bp. | baptized |
bef. | before |
betw. | between |
bur. | buried |
ca. | about (circa) |
Cal. | Calendar |
cf. | compare |
cit. | the work cited (citato) |
Co. or co. | county |
coh. | co-heir |
Coll. | College |
cr. | created (as a peer) |
d. | died |
d.c.e. | writ of diem clausit extremum ("he closed his last day") |
d.s.p. | died without issue (sine prole) |
d.s.p. legit. | died without legitimate issue |
d.s.p.m. | died without male issue |
d.v.p. or v.p. | died during father's lifetime (vita patris) |
d.y. | died young |
dau. | daughter |
dea. | deacon |
disp. | dispensation |
div. | divorced |
dtd. | dated |
ff. | following |
fl. | flourished or living (only approximate date known) |
frm. | freeman, a voter in a colony. The date following is the date he was
admitted. |
gen(s) | generation(s) |
gent. | gentleman |
gr. | granted |
GS | gravestone |
h. | heir (or heiress) |
husb. | husband |
i. | issue |
I.p.m.; Inq.p.m. | Inquest Post Mortem. An inquest held to determine the deceased's land holding. Usually dated by "regnal year"; see below. |
Ibid. | the same |
J.P. | Justice of the Peace |
j.u. | jure uxoris, right of the wife |
k. | killed |
K.B. | Kight of the Bath |
K.G. | Knight of the Garter |
K.T. | Knight of the Thistle (Scotland) |
knt.; kt. | knight |
lic. | license |
liv. | living |
loc. cit. | place cited |
m. | married |
m. (1); m. (2) |
married first; married second; etc. |
M.I. | monumental inscription |
M.P. | Member of Parliament |
matric. | matriculated (entered and recorded at college or university) |
ment. | mentioned |
Mich. | Michaelmas, the Feast of St. Michael (many other dates are given as Saints feast days, or days before or days after. |
ms.; mss. | manuscript; manuscripts |
N., N.N. | name not known |
n.i. | no issue |
N.S. or n.s. | new series |
nr. | near |
ob. | died |
occ. | occurs |
op.cit. | the work cited above (opere citato) |
p.; pp. | page; pages |
P.C. | Privy Council |
PCC | Prerogative Court of Canterbury (probate court) |
perh. | perhaps |
pres. | presumed |
pro. | probated or proved (will) |
prob. | probably |
psh. | parish |
pub. | published |
purch. | purchased |
q.v. | quod vide, which see |
ref(s) | reference(s) |
regnal year | the date most often used in medieval documents refering to the number of the year of the reign of the monarch at the time the document was dated. example; 3 Hen 4 or 3 Hen IV-Third year of the reign of Henry IV |
Rot. | Roll; Rolls (rotalus). A term used for many types of old records. |
s. | son |
s.p. | without issue (see d.s.p.) |
sh. | shortly |
suc. | succeeded |
succ. | successively |
summ. | summoned |
sou juris | in his (or her ) own right |
surv. | survived |
ult. | ultimo (last) |
unkn. | unknown |
unm. | unmarried |
vol. | volume |
wid. | widow |
y. | young |
yr. | younger |
yr(s) | year(s) |
yst. | youngest |