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Category: Translation - Tombstone
Approval Date: 3/4/2026 8:31 PM
Family Surname: Abrahams
Country: England
Town: London
Date of Image: 1849

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Would someone be willing to translate the Hebrew for me on this tombstone?

Thank you
Brian

Response

3/4/2026 10:00 PM

Some of the engraving is difficult to read. Do you have a higher-resolution photo, or any taken from different angles or in different light?

Meanwhile, here is what I can make out.
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Here is interred

a woman, Mrs. KAYLA [?] daughter of ________

wife of the honored Meir son of Eliezer ___

She passed away on the evening of the Holy Sabbath [after dark on Friday], the 21st of Elul

and was buried with a good name [=reputation] on Sunday, the 22nd of that month

in the year 5596

May her soul be bound up in the bond of life.
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Her (faded) name looks to me most like the Yiddish name Kayla. Her father's name is too faded for me to guess at.

Her husband's name is pronounced MAY-eer, and his father's is eh-lee-EH-zer. Eliezer is apparently followed by some illegible short text, possibly an abbreviation to indicate that the husband has predeceased her, or an abbreviation indicating that he was still alive, or possibly a designation such as 'the Cohen' or 'the Levite'.

The 21st of Elul, 5596, began at sunset on September 3rd, 1836, and ended at sunset on the 3rd.

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