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Rabbit B
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 06 April 08 11:27 UTC (UK) »
Gadget,

I am absolutely stumped!  I have been looking at all the old maps of Oxfordshire, all morning, especially South Oxfordshire which I think it is.

I can find nothing that remotely resembles that word!  I think that it begins with O, if you look and I have blown it up to 250% the O of Oxfordshire has a dot in the middle as well.  That is a deffinate F because the s is so clearly written.  Have you a date for this?  I have some very old maps of the area, it might be a village long gone!

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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #16 on: Sunday 06 April 08 11:30 UTC (UK) »
Hi Rabbit  Smiley

The 'f' is the way they used to write the first 's'

I'm going with Assen(den) Low(e)r


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243rose
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #17 on: Sunday 06 April 08 11:36 UTC (UK) »
the will is 1818
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #18 on: Sunday 06 April 08 12:21 UTC (UK) »
http://www.genuki.org.uk/cgi-bin/gazplace?GR=SU740840,PLACE=LOWER%20ASSENDON,CCC=OXF

Hopefully this link will work...should show you where Lower Assendon is located.
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243rose
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #19 on: Sunday 06 April 08 12:30 UTC (UK) »
thanks.

the deceased was james BAGG of Wootton in Surrey.
THe Assendon link was a Joseph BAGG who would inherit if everyone else died.
He wasn't a son so must havebeen another relative.

Thanks
iain
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #20 on: Sunday 06 April 08 12:35 UTC (UK) »
Well I've fiddled with it, diddled with it, changed me glasses and traced over it, and it still looks the same...
There is a Lower Assendon near Henley on Thames...
I'm plumping for that.

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243rose
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #21 on: Sunday 06 April 08 12:58 UTC (UK) »
in years gone by perhaps the place name was two words Assen Don ?? is it ever referred to by just Assen which would then make the Lower part easier on the eye ??
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #22 on: Sunday 06 April 08 13:00 UTC (UK) »
Iain

You keep ignoring the superscript 'r' It's the best sign there is.

Gadget  Smiley
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #23 on: Sunday 06 April 08 13:04 UTC (UK) »
i'm not ignoring it... i just am not sold on it.
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #24 on: Sunday 06 April 08 13:05 UTC (UK) »
it would be easier if the L looked like an L which it doesn't.
It is a definate D.
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #25 on: Sunday 06 April 08 13:09 UTC (UK) »
Recall how the L in LDS was written - it's very similar.
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #26 on: Sunday 06 April 08 13:13 UTC (UK) »
i could email you the whole document and then you could compare with other letters on it.
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #27 on: Sunday 06 April 08 13:14 UTC (UK) »
Have a look at the Ls on here, particularly the right hand one :

http://www.genealogia.fi/faq/faq031ce.htm

also:

http://www.genealogia.fi/faq/faq031fe.htm

I'll PM you my e-mail  Smiley
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #28 on: Sunday 06 April 08 13:20 UTC (UK) »
At first glance, I would have said the middle word was South.  It looks like "Sou", superscript "th", to me.

I also though that the first letter could be an "O" perhaps followed by an "l" but the equally it could be an "A".  Several letters in the adjoining words are more open than the same letter elsewhere.  The long letter is definitely an "s" (the ascender is before the descending stroke on the lower part, rather than after it).
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Re: can you decipher ????
« Reply #29 on: Sunday 06 April 08 13:23 UTC (UK) »
Iain - what was the name of the person who lived in the parish?
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