This week it’s all about words and phrases found in genealogy, family and house history research beginning with the letter G.
GABLUM – Rent/tax
GAIR – An outcrop on limestone on uplands; a bright green grassy ares surrounded by bent (stiff wiry course grass) or heather; an irregular strip of green land running down side of a moorland hill
GALILEE – A porch or chapel at the entrance of a church
GANNER/GANGER – Beggar or poor hawker or a combination of both
GAN-WIFE – Female pedlar selling pins, laces, nick-nack, tin ware, brushes and othr domestic items from a basket
GARBA – Sheaf of corn
GARCIO – Boy, servant, groom, page
GARDINUM – Garden
GARNER – A small barn for storing corn
GARTH – Enclosure, yard or garden attached to a house
GAUDEO/IRE, GAVISUM SUM – to use, to possess, to enjoy the use of, to enjoy, rejoice
GAVELCORN – service for redering a bushel of produce such as corn, for each VIRGATE
GAVELKIND – System of inheritance under which property was inherited equally by all sons, a widow receiving half instead of one third of her dower and under which a tenant could alienate his land at the age of 15 years
GELDUM – Tax, geld
GEMINI/E – twins (m./f.)
GENER – Son in law
GENEROSA – Lady, gentlewoman
GENEROSUS – Gentleman
GENITUS – Begotten
GERMANUS – Close blood relative, sibling
GERSUMA – Fee paid on inheritance of freehold land by a daughter
GESTUM – guests portion; allowance of meat and drink
GIBBETING – Hanging of executed criminals on public display as a deterant to others
GIRDLER – Maker of leather belts and girdles
GIRSOME – Fine payable on renewal of a lease
GLEBE – Land within a parish for the use of the parish priest
GNOTHUS – Bastard, illigitimate
GORA – Gore, Triangular piece of land
GRAMEN – Grass, pasture
GRANA/GRANUM – Grain
GRANARIUM – granary
GRATIA – Favour, grace, mercy, pardon
GRATOR – to acknowledge, to give thanks
GRATUM – Goodwill, consent
GRAVA – Wood, grove
GRAVAMAN – Injury, oppression, grievance, accusation
GREAVE – Another term for Bailiff
GREENSMITH – A metal worker specialising in copper and copper alloys
GREGARIUS – Drover, cattle man
GRENA – A Green, village green
GREY BEARD – A brown stoneware spirit bottle
GROAT – A silver coin worth 4 pence in use between 1351 and 1662
GROINGES – Growings; land let out for arable use
GULA – Throat, gulley, watercourse
GULE OF AUGUST – Lammas Day aka Loaf Mass day, 1st August, making the start of harvest
I would love to hear what obscure words and phrases you have found in your research – sarah@spfhhistory.co.uk