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Genealogical Symbol: backward S
« on: Sunday 14 August 11 05:07 BST (UK) »
What does solid vertical lines with a backward S in the middle represent in a family tree?

I've googled but can't find.

A family tree of my Scottish ancestors on the Isle of Skye is being transcribed for me by a very helpful lady on RootsChat.  The tree has these lines and backward S.    They have us stumped. 

Hoping someone knows.

Liz
Perthshire: MacArthur, Whittet, Mill (Milne), Alexander, Shaw, Pearson, Henderson, Rennie, Comrie, Braid, Ritchie, Roy, MacKillop, Keill, Cumming, Taylor, Marshall, Young, Miller, MacVicar, Murray, Cameron, Croll, Christie, Gloag, Gorrie, Stobbie, Lunnan, Thomson, Crerar, Hepburn.
Dundee: Mill (Milne).
Aberdeen: Mill (Milne).
Skye: MacIntosh, Stewart, MacQueen, Matheson, Morrison, Nicholson, MacLeod, Finlayson.
Peebles: Dickson, Sandilands, Rule, Johnstone.
Edinburgh: Thomson, Sandilands.

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Re: Genealogical Symbol: backward S
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 14 August 11 07:46 BST (UK) »
Hi Eleesavet,

No idea, but I do have Perthshire Whittet's (Errol), Milne's (Scone) and Taylors (Perth, Kinnoull, Scone)...

Any connections?

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Re: Genealogical Symbol: backward S
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 14 August 11 07:55 BST (UK) »
Can you show us an example, Liz?

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Re: Genealogical Symbol: backward S
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 14 August 11 08:09 BST (UK) »
It usually represents illegitimacy.

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CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Genealogical Symbol: backward S
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 14 August 11 08:22 BST (UK) »
Hi Jimmijam,

Will pm you later today.

Liz
Perthshire: MacArthur, Whittet, Mill (Milne), Alexander, Shaw, Pearson, Henderson, Rennie, Comrie, Braid, Ritchie, Roy, MacKillop, Keill, Cumming, Taylor, Marshall, Young, Miller, MacVicar, Murray, Cameron, Croll, Christie, Gloag, Gorrie, Stobbie, Lunnan, Thomson, Crerar, Hepburn.
Dundee: Mill (Milne).
Aberdeen: Mill (Milne).
Skye: MacIntosh, Stewart, MacQueen, Matheson, Morrison, Nicholson, MacLeod, Finlayson.
Peebles: Dickson, Sandilands, Rule, Johnstone.
Edinburgh: Thomson, Sandilands.

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Re: Genealogical Symbol: backward S
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 14 August 11 08:34 BST (UK) »

Quote from: PrueM on Sunday 14 August 11 07:55 BST (UK)
Can you show us an example, Liz?


Quote from: Jebber on Sunday 14 August 11 08:09 BST (UK)
It usually represents illegitimacy.


I wonder what the full expression was that lead to the abbreviation ?  I too would be interested in an example 

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Re: Genealogical Symbol: backward S
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 14 August 11 08:47 BST (UK) »
Hi PrueM,

I was informed by the RootsChatter who is transcribing the document that it is a solid vertical line connecting one person to another that has a backward S as a symbol in the middle.  (Sorry my graphic skills aren't up to drawing an example here.)

The RootsChatter is transcribing for me as it is too faint to copy.

The RC says that she was told by a friend involved in IT that he uses a similar symbol when it comes to wiring without a clear understanding of how far the wiring has to go.  She, therefore, wonders if it means a relation of an unknown distance (several generations removed).

Liz





Perthshire: MacArthur, Whittet, Mill (Milne), Alexander, Shaw, Pearson, Henderson, Rennie, Comrie, Braid, Ritchie, Roy, MacKillop, Keill, Cumming, Taylor, Marshall, Young, Miller, MacVicar, Murray, Cameron, Croll, Christie, Gloag, Gorrie, Stobbie, Lunnan, Thomson, Crerar, Hepburn.
Dundee: Mill (Milne).
Aberdeen: Mill (Milne).
Skye: MacIntosh, Stewart, MacQueen, Matheson, Morrison, Nicholson, MacLeod, Finlayson.
Peebles: Dickson, Sandilands, Rule, Johnstone.
Edinburgh: Thomson, Sandilands.

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Re: Genealogical Symbol: backward S
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 14 August 11 08:51 BST (UK) »
Hi Jebber,

From what I've found on the internet, illegitimacy is represented by (*).  Would that be right then about the backward S?

I'm not at all familiar with any kind of symbols.

Liz
Perthshire: MacArthur, Whittet, Mill (Milne), Alexander, Shaw, Pearson, Henderson, Rennie, Comrie, Braid, Ritchie, Roy, MacKillop, Keill, Cumming, Taylor, Marshall, Young, Miller, MacVicar, Murray, Cameron, Croll, Christie, Gloag, Gorrie, Stobbie, Lunnan, Thomson, Crerar, Hepburn.
Dundee: Mill (Milne).
Aberdeen: Mill (Milne).
Skye: MacIntosh, Stewart, MacQueen, Matheson, Morrison, Nicholson, MacLeod, Finlayson.
Peebles: Dickson, Sandilands, Rule, Johnstone.
Edinburgh: Thomson, Sandilands.

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Re: Genealogical Symbol: backward S
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 14 August 11 13:57 BST (UK) »
Hi all, TX for weighing in on the backwards S. I've fiddled with the scanner to get the pencil lines darker. This may give you a better idea of what I'm looking at.

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BAIN of Aberdeenshire, Trafford district, Red Jacket and Moosomin, Sask
CHEYNE of Aberdeenshire & Trafford district, Sask
FISHER of Yorkshire, Ontario & Saskatchewan
INKSTER of Shetland, Edinburgh, Sask and BC
GAUNT of Yorkshire, Kent, BC & Australia
KINCH of Ireland, PEI, Ab, Sask
CORCORAN of Ireland, PEI & Sask
GOTZ / GOETZ of Soufflenheim, Alsace & Ont
MITTELHAUSSER of Soufflenheim, Alsace
MULLER or MILLER of Drusenheim, Alsace & Ont
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