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13-11-09, 13:39
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Heebright?
A burial entry I came across in the Elkesley parish register which I'm transcribing for FreeREG:
John Strutt a Heebright Buried July the 9th (1750). Do you think "Heebright" means Jewish? There are one or two occupations listed in the burials but they don't have "a" before them (e.g. John Kemshall Farmer). And I can't think of an occupation that sounds like Heebright. There are also one or two burials that say "a youth" or "a young woman" after the name, but again, I can't think of anything like that which would be written as Heebright. John Strutt's children were baptised at the parish church, and the ones who died were buried there, and I haven't seen any mention of them being "Heebrights" which is why I wonder if I've misunderstood it. Or maybe his wife was a Christian, or would the children have more or less had to be baptised anyway in those days? Of course I will transcribe the word as seen anyway, but I'm just nosy! 
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13-11-09, 14:04
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I wouldn't have thought a Jewish person would be buried in a Christian church, would they?
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13-11-09, 15:59
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What else could it mean, though?
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13-11-09, 16:27
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Googling seems to suggest something Hebrew or Jewish
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13-11-09, 16:29
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I doubt if there would be a Jewish burial ground in the area, so the parish churchyard would probably be the only burial place anyway.
How odd though. I have seen "Jew" written in a church record, but never "Hebright" and I'm racking my brains to think what else it might be, OC
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13-11-09, 16:54
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There are some idiosyncratic spellings in those PR's, such as the first name Beangiman, which had me puzzled for a while. I did check the BT's for John Strutt's burial but it didn't say anything in there except his name and the date.
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13-11-09, 19:26
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Light dawns...
wheelwright?
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13-11-09, 19:30
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I don't think so, Mary. It definitely says "a Heebright".
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13-11-09, 19:32
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Hmm. I wrote down Heebright in scrawly writing, and it could be mistaken for wheelwright, especially if the spelling's eccentric.
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13-11-09, 19:46
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I think i remember something like this....i think a Hebright / Heebright, is an upstanding member of the Jewish community.
__________________
Jacky
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