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Please can someone help with this mind game.
Betty and lucy were touring the west country on holiday. lucy was particularly fond of old country churchyards,and in one found an extraordinary gravestone.It was that of a child who,according to the inscription, was born on 15 May 1658 and died, aged eight months, on 24 January the same year! is this possible?...................................................Any ideas its doing my head in. Thanks.
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The great calendar change happend in 1752 and involved only 11 days.
Simplest answer seems to be that the mason carved srong year for death date, or the child was sickly at birth and expected to die soon so parents got stone made leaving off only day/month but child survived until the new year. Alternatively, Dr Who paid them a visit.
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