"eldmother" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1571 November 5, John Heworth of Gatisheid, Will, in Wills and Inventories from the Registry at Durham (1835)",
          "text": "Item I gyve vnto my eldmother his wyffe my wyffes froke and a read petticote and a smoke."
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          "word": "eldfather"
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          "word": "eldermother"
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