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Offline arthurk

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Re: What does this symbol mean?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 26 November 19 14:06 GMT (UK) »
Thank you, JenB. In these images it looks like a 'K' with a circle drawn round it.

On the page in your first link, the one in entry 51054 (col.2) seems to have it drawn fairly carefully with the circle drawn separately. In most of the others it looks as though the circle was drawn as a continuation of the 'K'.

I can't work out why some have it in col.2 and some in col.6; and in the second link, some have it in both.

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Re: What does this symbol mean?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 26 November 19 14:09 GMT (UK) »
Looks like an "Ankh" but on it's side.

Looking at the many other occurrences it just looks like a 'K' in a circle to me too.

Here it is on a 1915 page https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QSQ-G96P-K8X8?i=679&cat=701705

I think this has been added later, by someone going through the burial books.
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