Memorial inscription help please

[hanes teulu]

From the beginning I've been puzzling about the apostrophe (OI'CH). An apostrophe is used to indicate missing letters at the end of a word in Welsh (amongst other things).
In full the date wd be "10 fed o Chwefror = 10 th of February". The apostrophe could well refer to the missing "fed".

[Cynfelin]

Eryd Io'ch

Try Taken from us.

[Taffy Lee]

Long shot....but could it be "Eryd Ior", i.e. the Lord's Plough?

Maybe meaning that he ploughed the way for the Lord's word???

Was he a minister or something?

Lee

[dcbnwh]

Thank you for the recent replies,

"The Lord's Plough" is an interesting suggestion.

I am not sure what he did but other relatives were ministers and so this is a possibility.

Many thanks,

David

[dcbnwh]

I have now seen the grave and the transcription was incorrect

ERYD IO'CH is actually ERY 21 O'CH

Taken from us/Past away on 21st February

Many thanks fro the help and suggestions.

David

[ArwelONeill]

David, is there anything on the next line?  I've noticed on some very old stones that they split words up as soon as they reached the end of a line and just carried on from the beginning of the next.

It looks to me like 'ER Y' then the date, which does indeed refer to the date of death. 

I have now seen the grave and the transcription was incorrect

ERYD IO'CH is actually ERY 21 O'CH

Taken from us/Past away on 21st February

Many thanks fro the help and suggestions.

David

[dcbnwh]

The next line is simply the year. I imagine that the text has been re-cut at some time and there may have other words after the date. However, there is another grave in a similar condition, with the words in English, which suggests that the inscription is complete.

David

[EmyrBorth]

Hi
The words are seperated by 'dots', but not always, perhaps because of weathering. It starts with 'YMAE.YMMA.'  I suspect that this should read, 'Y.MAE.YMMA.', i.e. 'Y mae ymma.' Nowadays 'ymma' would be spelt 'yma'. Translated, 'there is here'.
Moving on to the 'ERY', perhaps this should read 'ER.Y' or 'ER Y', translated 'since the'.
The full translation would then be:
"There is here lying the body of Hugh Nanney since the 21st of February 1683"
(Here lyeth)

EmyrBorth
 

[dcbnwh]

Many thanks for the interpretation.

David