Forest of Dean FHT Forum - Sepultus fuit

Sepultus fuit (reply)

tonyjenkins — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:37:57 +0000

Thnaks Chris

The site your referred to provides me with the answer plus more

Regards

Tony

slowhands — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:14:04 +0000

Sepultus

can you see the latin root of english sepulchre ?

grave, tomb etc and Holy Sepulchre

ChrisW — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 05:18:05 +0000

Hi Tony

I found this site which may help!

Excerpt from above site:

(4) Burials
These were mainly brief and once dates are understood are relatively simple to translate.

A normal format would be:

Sarah Overton vid. sepulta fuit decimo quarto Iulii 1674.
Sarah Overton, widow, was buried 14th July 1674.

From a passage further up the article it would appear that FUIT means 'has been' or 'was'. So does sepultus mean buried??

tonyjenkins — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 04:47:54 +0000

Can anyone tell me what the translation of Sepultus fuit is?

Regards

Tony Jenkins