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I have found a local cemetery gravestone that features the incumbents name and relevant dates naturally, but after the deceased name has the letters M.N.I. after them. Can anybody assist me in identifying these letters please ??
Thank you for any help at all. ???
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Male, female, adult, child, location, profession/occupation in life?
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Depending on the date and location it could mean 'Member of the Nautical Institute'. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_Institute (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nautical_Institute)
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If they died after 1840, can you find them on a census and see if that helps?
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Could the 'I' possibly be a 'J' ?
The letter 'J' was often carved as an 'I' in MI's and building date stones.
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I have found a local cemetery gravestone that features the incumbents name and relevant dates naturally, but after the deceased name has the letters M.N.I. after them. Can anybody assist me in identifying these letters please ??
Thank you for any help at all. ???
Possibilities include some variant or corruption of:
- Academic award
- Membership religious order or society
- Membership of some civic society, etc.
So it would help if you could give location, date of death and religious profession. Right now could be the Antipodes for all we know.
A photo might help - certain of the letters?
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Hi
I see from your details that you are in East Anglia so I assume that the cemetery is there.
My first thoughts were something related to the Merchant Navy but, so far, I've not found a match from this list:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_post-nominal_letters_(United_Kingdom) ***
As other;s have said, details of age, etc would help.
Gadget
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PS - I see it's your birthday - Happy Birthday :)
*** the link should work but the second time I clicked on it referred me to the correct page!
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Advertising for National Mortgage Insurance?
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“Mariner Not Interred”? - i.e. buried at sea - could be anything.
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Mostly Not Interred
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You say he was the incumbent, so I checked an old edition of Crockford's Clerical Directory to see if it was among the abbreviations used there. It wasn't - the nearest was M.M. for Military Medal.
If you can give us his name, maybe we could find something in his career that it might relate to.
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I've just finished scrolling down the listing that I referred to and the only MNI that is showing is
Member of the Nautical Institute MNI
Gadget
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... but it can't be that as it was founded in 1971!
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I must admit to having lost the actual gravestone now. I know more or less where it is, it is just the narrowing it down. I have been back walking the dog two or three times over the seasons holidays, all to no avail. It is a well orderly cemetery, so looking it up should be easy, but.....!!!
This is purely a bit of self indulgence really, but it piqued my interest, now I am embarrassed. Thanks all who have replied, but I now need to re-find the stone, write the details down and go from there. This now becomes an obsession to the extent that I am wearing the poor dogs legs down. ;D