Memorial inscription help please

[dcbnwh]

I would be very grateful for help with this inscription from Llanaber, Merionethshire. I think I can work out the first part but not the final two words after the name:

"Yma y mae yn gorwedd gorff HUGH NANNEY, ERYD IO'CH 1683"

Regards,
David

[Llwyd]

Hi there David,

The first bit I would have as the "here is the final/last resting place of". However, the Eryd Io'ch has me beat. I've tried splitting it up and assuming, with the age of it, there may be an error but what I have managed to come up with doesn't really make sense ......... "er ydi och"  or even "er y dio(l)ch".

There must be someone out there ........ I'll try my Welsh translator friend when I can get hold of her, if not solved before.

Pob lwc.
 

[gwynt]

Hi David,

Yeah that last bit is confusing. Could that be the name of his house? Is that last bit in upper case letters on the gravestone like his name is? Have you got a photo of the gravestone that you could post?

Eryd can mean plough I think.

Cheers,
Gwyn

[dcbnwh]

Thank you for the replies so far. The inscription was passed on to me and came from a book which may have been written some time ago. It is not a grave that I had noticed when I visited Llanaber and so may have faded.
The suggestion that it could be a place name is interesting, although he is mentioned in a will of a couple of years earlier and it doesn't match. However, it could be a house or farm in that locality, but I can't make out the name. It looks a bit like Llanucouse - image attached.

Regards,
David

[hanes teulu]

dcbnwh

Are they your Capitals (...HUGH NANNEY, ERYD IO'CH 1683) or is this how they appear on the headstone?
This has got a lot of us scratching our heads!
I'm aware of a place Nant y Eryd and I've seen Eryd in an ancient Welsh poem.
regards

[pinot]

Don't know what the conventions of gravestone inscriptions of the age were, but is this a possibility: ER(since) Y(the) D(dydd/diwrnod=day) 10'(10th) (of)CH(wefror=February)? If so it mght refer to the date of interment rather than death. Can't make out the manuscript placename, and have failed to find any information on this Hugh (a favoured family name, apparently).
                       Pinot

[dcbnwh]

Thank you for the suggestion that it could be a date. This seems plausible, given the position of the words.

Hugh was the son of Lewis Nanney and Jane Hughes, born in Talyllyn c1635, and so had moved away from home.

I will visit the church again in the summer, to see if the inscription is still legible. I didn't notice it on previous visits and, because it is on a cliff overlooking the sea, suspect that the weather has now rendered it illegible.

Many thanks for your help,

David

[alism]

Here lies the body of HUGH NANNEY

ERYDU = to erode
Could be the date  abbreviated  10 CH     CHWEFROR = February

alism

[dcbnwh]

Thanks alism.

That seems to make sense if Eryd is used as a euphemism for dying in the same way that we use "past away" today.

Unfortunately, there are no parish records for that period to confirm it but, putting all of the suggestions together, the inscription could mean:

Here is the final/last resting place of

Hugh Nanney

(Who) past away on 10th February 1683

Regards,
David