Featured Memorial silk

Relict is an archaic form for widow (I hadn't heard it previously either).

 

Lily Hall is a listed building, so maybe she was a local personage memorialized in Victorian fashion.

Probably inappropriate to say so, but it's a bit like a party favor, isn't it.

 

Do any others remember the custom of wearing a black armband to signify that a person was in a period of mourning?

 

OR maybe more like today's memorial cards they have at wakes for you to take, if you want one..........

 

Much more appropriate.

 

If much less wearable. I've seen that word used before, but not in the 20th century.

 

Relict is properly used to refer to a widow once she too has died.

 

I've got some of those Davey, some cream and some black

 

directly from the Latin it would come from the same root as the wider used relic.
simply meaning an item or person that "stayed behind" or "outlasted" etc. .

 

When I see posts with historical content I can't resist looking up some information. I see that there is information on this family scattered around the Web. Couldn't find one good link for you here, but was thinking that a local historian or historical society might be a good place for this ribbon.