UNDERTAKER

undertaker

Noun

  1. A funeral director; someone whose business is to manage funerals, burials and cremations
  2. a person receiving land in Ireland during the Elizabethan era, so named because they gave an undertaking to abide by several conditions regarding loyalty to the crown, marriage, and using English as their spoken language.
    In 1588 becomes an 'undertaker' in the first Elizabethan plantation, receiving the forfeited Irish estate of Kilcolman Castle.


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