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| Molley Ussel, 1756, Duxbury |
IN MEMORY OF
MOLLEY UFFEL
DAUGHTER TO
Mr. GEORGE UFF
EL & MRS MOLLEY
HIS WIFE WHO
DECd FEBry ye 22d
1756: O.S. AGED
18 Years & 1 MONTH
Here is an interesting bit of carving. This stone was carved by a member of the Soule family using mostly capital letters. The surname is rendered as UFFEL, with two capital Fs. Yet, Duxbury vital statistics indicate that the deceased's name was actually Molly Ussel. It would not be unusual to render Ussel using the long s in writing with lower-case letters, but I have never seen a double long s transcribed as two capital Fs on any other stone.
2 comments:
I’m not familiar with either Ussel or Uffel as a surname. Is it possible that the stone is right and Winsor’s 1849 transcription is wrong? The 1911 Vital Records of Duxbury transcribed the same name as Uffel.
I've been looking around all afternoon and can't find any Ussels or Uffels outside of Winsor book and the 1911 Vital Records. Either they died out, moved away, or we've got another Martha Jue situation on our hands.
I'll have to keep that in mind about errors of the ear vs. errors of the eye. It seems like a useful way of classifying things.
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