243rose
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what parish is this from a Surrey will ??
Any ideas welcome.
I'm baffled.
Iain.
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Looks like "Assen Senr" 
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I live in NSW, and am researching:
BALFOUR (Derry) – BIGG (Kent) – BONSALL (DBY, NTT, CHS) – BRISBANE (Fife) – DANKS (STS) – DOBSON (BRK) – FRANCIS (ESS) – GOODE (HAM) – HAYNES (Cork) – INGRAM (MDX, SOM) – LANGWORTHY (Jersey, DEV) – MCKAY (Fife, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, Inverness) – MORRISH (LND) – NANCARROW (CON) – OGILVIE (Moray, LND) – STRATHDEE (Banff) – SWAN (Fife) – WOOD (LND)
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There are two Assendens (Lower and Upper) in Oxfordshire - could it be one of those?
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I live in NSW, and am researching:
BALFOUR (Derry) – BIGG (Kent) – BONSALL (DBY, NTT, CHS) – BRISBANE (Fife) – DANKS (STS) – DOBSON (BRK) – FRANCIS (ESS) – GOODE (HAM) – HAYNES (Cork) – INGRAM (MDX, SOM) – LANGWORTHY (Jersey, DEV) – MCKAY (Fife, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, Inverness) – MORRISH (LND) – NANCARROW (CON) – OGILVIE (Moray, LND) – STRATHDEE (Banff) – SWAN (Fife) – WOOD (LND)
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I've been searching the Oxfordshire parishes, Prue - Think that second word could certainly be Lower - Lowr .
Good one 
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Hi Rabbit 
It was Prue that found it - not me. I just interpreted the Lowr bit.
Yes - it does look a lovely area
Gadget
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No, Rabbit, you're correct - I had a temporary lapse and wrote "Upper" but it is actually "Middle"
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I live in NSW, and am researching:
BALFOUR (Derry) – BIGG (Kent) – BONSALL (DBY, NTT, CHS) – BRISBANE (Fife) – DANKS (STS) – DOBSON (BRK) – FRANCIS (ESS) – GOODE (HAM) – HAYNES (Cork) – INGRAM (MDX, SOM) – LANGWORTHY (Jersey, DEV) – MCKAY (Fife, Aberdeen, Banff, Moray, Inverness) – MORRISH (LND) – NANCARROW (CON) – OGILVIE (Moray, LND) – STRATHDEE (Banff) – SWAN (Fife) – WOOD (LND)
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So, getting back to the writing 
Do we think it's Assenden Lower or what
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Hi.
only me again.
thanks for all yr help.
i don't think the writing says 'lower'.
looking again it says simply assen don.......... the person who wrote it was probably unfamiliar with the place name.
cheers
iain.
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Sorry, Iain
I don't agree. The other d in Oxfordshire is different and there is definitely an r written as superscript at the end.
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Are you saying that the first word just says 'Assen' ?? and the whole Assen Low(r) ??
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That's what I'm thinking, Iain, not sure about the others. I'd hazard a guess that Assenden was abbreviated to Assen in this instance. The superscript 'r' is very pronounced in the second word.
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I see what you mean.
Would thaey have abbreviated on a will ??.
i know it's not helpfull for all my helpers not to have sight of the entire document.
The writer of the will perhaps thought that Assen Don were two words instead of one and that the L is a capital D.
The author's lower case L's are not the same as the possible L in lower although i cannot find an example of an upper case L to compare.
But in general you have all agreed that it is most likely Assendon in one form or another whether it be upper, lower, middle or slightly left of centre and for that i thank you.
Iain.
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