Help with a riddle answer please?!
Question: Betty and Lucy were touring the West Country on holiday. Lucy was particularly fond of old country churchyards, in one she found an extraordinary grave stone.
It was that of a child who according to the inscription was born on 15th May 1658 and died aged 8 months on 24th January the same year.
Is this possible?
I think it is something to do with the seasons had changed so the powers that be adjusted time but dont know for sure and yes I did get this off the back of a matchbox but I need to know now its driving me nuts!
Answers: Betty and Lucy were touring the West Country on holiday. Lucy was particularly fond of old country churchyards, in one she found an extraordinary grave stone.
It was that of a child who according to the inscription was born on 15th May 1658 and died aged 8 months on 24th January the same year.
Is this possible?
I think it is something to do with the seasons had changed so the powers that be adjusted time but dont know for sure and yes I did get this off the back of a matchbox but I need to know now its driving me nuts!
It's because many countries were still transferring from the Julian calender to the Gregorian calender. I believe the British changed in 1658 and it put them back a year.
most possibly a typographical error with the one who inscripted the year..
obviously, eight months after May would be January..
dunno if its correct..just checkin the possibilities
At Usan near Montrose in Scotland there is a gravestone which shows that someone died about 40 years before they were born (approximately) it was a mistake by the stonemason, yours is probably the same.
Jimc
The baby had not reached 1 year of age, so he died in the same year he was born. Just a guess....
what????