Genealogical Terms - Q

GENEALOGICAL TERMS LETTER 'Q'

QLD Queensland, AUS PLACE-NAME

QU Quaker; Friends ABBREVIATION

QUAKER member of the Society of Friends; a Friend RELIGION

QUARREL PICKER glazier OCCUPATION

QUARRIER stonecutter OCCUPATION

QUARRYMAN stonecutter OCCUPATION

QUARTA FEIRA Wednesday PORTUGUESE

QUARTER a unit of sea coal or salt containing 8 bushels; a unit of length equal
to 9 inches; a Scottish land measure equal to one rood MEASURE

QUARTER a unit of weight equal to 28 pounds; also a measure WEIGHT

QUATRE four FRENCH

QUATRO four PORTUGUESE

QUATTRO four ITALIAN

QUATTUOR four LATIN

QUE and LATIN

QUICK CONSUMPTION tuberculosis MEDICAL

QUILLER one who operated a machine that wound yarn onto spools OCCUPATION

QUILTER one who quilted material OCCUPATION

QUILTRESS one who quilted material OCCUPATION

QUINCKE'S DISEASE angioneurotic oedema - a severe allergic reaction MEDICAL

QUINQUE five LATIN

QUINSEY tonsillitis MEDICAL

QUINSY tonsillitis MEDICAL

QUINTA FEIRA Thursday PORTUGUESE

QUINTAL 100 pounds WEIGHT

QUINTILLIS July LATIN

QUISTER one who bleached things OCCUPATION

QUIT CLAIM release or relinquish a claim that one has or might have; does not
state that one actually has a claim LEGAL

QUIT CLAIM DEED deed of conveyance that passes any title, interest or claim a
grantor might have in a premises LEGAL

QUIT RENT rent paid by a tenant by which he is discharged from paying any other
rent LEGAL

QWYLWRYGHTE wheelwright OCCUPATION