jan 1, 1570 - naunt

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Aunt, for ‘mine aunt’, pronounced like ‘haunt’. 1505 <i>To myn Awnte Alison,</i> Guisborough (SS116/270); 1545 <i>I give to my nawnte Warrayn the graie horse</i>, Seaton (SS106/225); 1570 <i>to Thomas Eyon ... and</i> <i>every one of his children which he had with my nante xijd</i>, South Cave (Kaner73). The moorland inn <i>Nont Sarah’s</i> near Scammonden commemorates a nineteenth-century licensee.

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