Abbreviation

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Permalink Reply by Tamura Jones on August 6, 2009 at 8:03am

Probably an abbreviation of aldaar, which means "there, in that place".

Permalink Reply by Saskia Hallam on August 6, 2009 at 8:18am

Thanks. That would make sense. The preceding place name is "Nieuw-Lekkerland" which would be a pain to retype everytime.

Permalink Reply by Sylvia Binch-Talma on August 6, 2009 at 11:55am

Hi Saskia,

Tamura is right.

The abreviation "ald." stands for "aldaar". It literally means "there". It refers to a place mentioned before, like: John was born on 1 Aug 1964 in Amsterdam. He married Susy on 20 November 2001 aldaar (= also in Amsterdam).

I hope this helps.

Kind regards,
Sylvia

Permalink Reply by Saskia Hallam on August 6, 2009 at 12:10pm

Hi
Thanks. It does make sense now. May I ask another question? My uncle has written against another entry - Petronella Wilhelmina van der Zaag who was born in Zuidland in 1759 and died in 's-Gravenhage in 1833 - "otr.15-6-1785 's-Gravenhage en tr. 23-6-1785 Zuidland". Did she have two weddings or is this something comparable to reading the Banns in England?
Regards
Saskia

Permalink Reply by Sylvia Binch-Talma on August 6, 2009 at 12:15pm

Me again.

Yes, you're right. "otr." stands for "ondertrouw". This is the same as reading the Banns in England.

Kind regards,
Sylvia

Permalink Reply by Saskia Hallam on August 11, 2009 at 12:09pm

Hi
More help with another abbreviation please. "ontb." This follows a reference to a marriage.
Saskia

Permalink Reply by Earl Reemt Duthler on August 16, 2009 at 7:34am

I would think this means " ontbonden " or disolved, Saskia. Likely by death, as divorce was uncommon then. Remarriages, sometimes several, because of death of a partner were common. The words are close in meaning to the English bind, bond and spelled the same way. Here it would mean literally "disbonded or disbound". .

Earl