Mono Monday in St Marys Cemetery
Another week begins and I wish everyone a good week.
as is my habit for Mondays I am going to share a few mono shots, this week my subject theme will be from visits to St Marys Cemetery in Dartmouth MA, it is a Catholic Cemetery that had headstones going back to the 1800s, and has a lot of Irish names on Headstones, being of Irish descent I love checking out the names on the headstones.
This first shot is of one of the statues on one of the headstones, worn down by the weather and the years.
Sony A7iv 55mm F8 1/200 Sec ISO 100
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Showing the full headstone and you can see it dates back to 1901, so I think its doing pretty well after so long
Sony A7iv 28mm F8 1/250 Sec ISO 100
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Not all the names in the Cemetery are Irish of course, Such as the Surname Siravo on this next headstone
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Now I got curious of the origin of the Name Siravo and did some research
It is the 308,137th most numerous family name in the world. It is borne by around 1 in 5,949,017 people. The last name occurs predominantly in The Americas, where 59 percent of Siravo live; 59 percent live in North America and 59 percent live in Anglo-North America
Which although interesting I wasn't able to find a clear Origin for the name.
Next up is this lovely headstone for Santos, A name which I do believe originates from Portugal
Sony A7iv 47mm F8 1/160 Sec ISO 100
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I mentioned that the cemetery has a lot of Irish names, but had not shared any to=ill now so finishing off with these three headstones from the 1800s for Kennedy's
Kennedy or Kynidi is an Anglicised form the Irish Cinnéididh and Cinnéidigh. Woulfe derived these Irish names from two elements: the first, ceann, meaning "a head"; the second, éide, meaning "Armour"; hence the name can be thought to mean "helmet-headed".
Sony A7iv 41mm F8 1/160 Sec ISO 100
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And that’s all folks
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