Can someone please help me decipher this extract from a Will.
This is my guess, so far;
Moneys to and for the use and benefit of my four ?..? ?reputed? children namely Robert Parker the illegitimate son ?..? ?....? of Ann Parker before her marriage with ?....? her now husband and Mary Ann, Robert and Sarah my three ?reputed? illegitimate children by Sarah my now wife before our marriage whose ?..? Maiden Name was ..........
It looks like Ann Parker has married a Mr Rowlatt. Does the marriage of Ann Parker and William Rowlatt (IGI) in 1788 at Preston, Rutland fit in with the timescale?
Thankyou, yes the time suits well. His known children were in the range 1766 to 1776 (with 3 not yet dated.)
Moneys to and for the use and benefit of my four ?..? ?reputed? children namely Robert Parker the illegitimate son or child of Ann Parker before her marriage with Rowlatt her now husband and Mary Ann, Robert and Sarah my three ?reputed? illegitimate children by Sarah my now wife before our marriage whose ?..? Maiden Name was ..........
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...for the use and benefit of my Four reputed children namely Robert Parker the illegitimate Son or child of Ann Parker before her marriage with .......Rowlatt her now husband and Mary Ann Robert and Sarah my three reputed illegitimate Children by Sarah my now wife before our marriage whose .....
So you had deciphered most of it. I can't see her maiden name on the extract.
I think they are just line fillers - I don't know the correct technical term - but a gap at the end of a line on old wills is often filled in with squiggles of various kinds. I imagine to prevent anything being added later that shouldn't be.
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