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NOTES AND QUERIES. 



[Nov. 3. 1855. 



Mij Sister loed me (Vol. xii., p. 208.). — I once 

 met with a similarly inexplicable entry in a pedi- 

 gree of the Smith family. As nearly as 1 can 

 recollect, it occurred in one of the Smith Carring- 

 tons, or Carrington Smiths, among the genealogi- 

 cal collections in the British Museum, and ran 

 thus : 



" Richd Smith 



mari-d his 



own Sister." 



This appears to require some sort of explanation ; 

 if correct, I imagine It was not his uterine sister 

 that he espoused, but a daughter of his father's 

 wife by a former husband. Of course this is only 

 mere conjecture. But a case in point has recently 

 baen communicated to me by a gentleman who 

 well knew the parties. A. has an illegitimate 

 daughter B. A. afterwards marries, not the mo- 

 ther of.B., but another lady, C, by whom he has 

 a son D. Tiiis D. eventually becomes the husband 

 of B., and so illustrates the fact of a man marrying 

 his own sister. One of the parties is still living. 



Cii. Hopper. 



Coney Gore (Vol. xil., p. 126.). — There is a 

 street in Great Yarmouth, called the " Conge." 

 Has this any relation to the above denomination ? 

 Or whence is it derived, and what does It mean ? 



F. C. B. 



Diss. 



" Coneyhury" or " Coneyswich." — Coneybury 

 or Coneyburrow is a not uiifrequent name for a 

 Roman establishment. There are in Shropshire, 

 Coneybury at Farlow and Abdon. At Longdon 

 in Worcestershire, is Coneyburrow. This form is 

 not so common as Coneygore. There is a Coneys- 

 wick at Rock in Worcestershire. Hyde Clarke. 



Bells at Hedon (Vol. xii , p. 285.). — Your cor- 

 respondent G. R. P. does not state the size or 

 weight of the bell having a border of small bells 

 and leaves and a shield between every two bear- 

 ing the letters S. S. IMay not this have been the 

 sancte bell removed from a bell-cot on the roof at 

 the east end of the church, and transferred to the 

 tower after the Reformation ? There are many of 

 these bell-cots still remaining, both in stone and 

 wood. 



A beautiful example of the latter material 

 covered with lead traceried and cricketted, still 

 stands on the roof of the church at Dunwich in 

 Suffolk, it must have contained at one time a bell 

 of more than the ordinary size. B. Ferret. 



Verses in French Patois (Vol. xll., p. 264.). — 

 The patois is the Wallon. The lines quoted, are 

 part of a dialogue entitled Li Molin a Vin et T 

 Molin a fAiew, at p. 70. of Le Mai et Liiiwe, 

 Liege, 185-3. The Wallon is said to be in rapid 

 progress towards extinction as a spoken language, 

 but many traditional pieces have been preserved, 



No. 314.] 



and some new poems published. Chansons et 

 Poesies Wallonnes, recueillies par MM. B. et D., 

 Liege, 1844, is a good collection of the former, 

 and any foreign bookseller will procure Poesies 

 Wallonnes, par Vauteur du Pantalon Trawe, Liege, 

 1842; Blouwett Liegeoiss, Liege, 1845, and Les 

 PHits Moumints d' Plaisir, Huy, 1852. These 

 show the Wallon as now spoken, 



A meagre grammar Is prefixed to Hubert's 

 Dictionnaire Wallon- Liegeoise, Liege, 1853. I do 

 not know any other dictionary, and in this I am 

 unable to find several words used in the books 

 above mentioned. This difficulty Is increased by 

 the variations In spelling of a language reduced to 

 writing in its old age. Messrs. B. and D. give 

 the following example of spelling the same words: 



" Choutez 90U qu 'i v' diliet d' novai 

 Ces predicants, ces diales," 



which they prefer to 



* " Choutd sou kif dilie d' novai 



Ce predican, ce diale." 



The author of Le Mai e Limve would write the 

 latter. 



The Wallon, though not extended over a large 

 surfiice, varies greatly, that of Stavelot differing 

 much from that of Verviai's, as may be seen in the 

 specimens at pp. 85. 125. and 140. of the Chansons 

 et Poesies Wallonnes. 



In 1841, before the Introduction of railways, I 

 engaged a carriage at Aix la Chapelle, to go to 

 Liege, taking the least frequented road. About 

 twenty miles from Liege a spring broke, and vve 

 were obliged to apply to some peasants for assist- 

 ance. My companion was a very good linguist, 

 and our driver, a native of Tirlemont, settled at 

 Aix la Chapelle, who had been on that road for 

 twelve years, spoke Flemish and Belgian French ; 

 but, after trying all the languages we could muster. 

 It was only by making signs with a piece of pack- 

 thread that we made them understand that we 

 wanted a rope. They were very civil and oblig- 

 ing. Not being then interested in patois, I did 

 nol make a note of the place. All that I re- 

 member is, that we chose the road generally 

 avoided, from the number of the hills and the 

 want of a good dining place, because the scenery 

 was said, and truly so, to be beautiful. Probably 

 the language was a variety of Wallon, though our 

 driver declared it was not. H. B. C. 



U. U, Club. 



''Aboard," "Ashore" (xii. 113.).— Mr. Buck- 

 ton gives instances of both seamen and landsmen 

 using a in the sense of on or in. I have high 

 authority for suggesting that, in these cases, a is 

 only a corruption of a^ a nearly synonymous pre- 

 position. 



Some twenty-five years ago, I was at the lakes, 

 and often in company with the late Robert 



