Only in England ... :)
C.G. Ouimet Kingston ON -----Original Message----- From: Ron Ferguson [mailto:ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk] Sent: April 13, 2014 10:13 AM To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Quarter dates Cheryl, Good question! I suggest that you Google "English quarter days" where you will see that they are not exactly the last day of the appropriate month, which is a later change in usage. However prior to 1752(?) the quarter days were the first day of the quarter afterwards, the last. Nice one eh! Ron Ferguson http://www.fergys.co.uk/ GOONS #5307 singhals <singh...@erols.com> wrote: >Ron Ferguson wrote: >> David, >> >> It would seem that you are not familiar with the English quarter days. >> Historically these are the days on which many accounts had to be settled, >> especially anything relating to land, property and government >> administration. The actual day being the last day of each quarter - the >> first quarter day being 31 March in each year. > >Since you alluded to it -- was 31 March the quarter day when the year >began 25 Mar? Because my logic suggests quarter day then would have >been 26 June, which would explain a few puzzles. > >I ask primarily because I once ran across some Quaker MM records that >counted months from the date of the MM's founding, not from the >calendar (i.e., the first month was July or September, not January or >March), which was massively misleading when one tried to match with >non-Quaker records from the area! > >Cheryl > > > >Legacy User Group guidelines: >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ >Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ >Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on >our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). >To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
