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Topic: Help with dechipering Will text 1856 (Read 1011 times)
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AMBLY
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Hi Rob
Have emailed you the will to look at .
I think you may have mis-read my msg re: which word it was in the 2nd help text regards Falconer - the word 'residing' (after Isabella Latta) above it is indeed easy - it's the word after Falconer which was less so - it's most definitely not 'residing' and I'm sure now it is 'Hozier'.
The part of the document (all written by the same hand as I mentioned earlier) re: STEELE/HALL is not the actual Will bit, it's the end-part of the deposition by one of the Executors re: the testators death, so it won't be in the original will?
Anyway, we look forward to hearing your final verdict 
Thanks again
Anne
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AMBLY
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Thanks Rob for taking the time with that
Genealogy-wise, I have gotten my money's worth from this document, and HALL/STEELE I feel is probably a clerk of the offices,bearing witness,anyway, as has been suggested before.
Thanks again to Nell & Prue for their help also.
Cheers
Anne
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PrueM
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No worries Anne. I wish more people would post these types of requests, they're great fun! Give the brain (and the eyes  ) a good workout.
Prue
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Hi there
I live in Dumbarton and thought you might be interested to know that my friend lives round the corner from me in Latta Street !Must be a connection .
Mrst
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AMBLY
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Hi MrsT
I have heard of Latta Street there in Dumbarton, and believe it was named for the family of John LATTA b1788-d 1874, who was at one stage a prominent counciller/town clerk, and a tanner, and his son Robert LATTA b1830-d1908 who succeeded him in the Tannery. John's father was appparently also named Robert, and I believe his mother may have been Agnes CRUMB but not yet confirmed this.
I am trying to tie up the Dumbarton LATTA's and as yet I can't manage to link William LATTA b 1806-d1856 (he of the will above) whose father was also named William, to the "Latta St" lot! By dates, William Snr could be a brother of John the tanner. But intriguingly, they both appear to have married a woman named Janet LANG. I don't think it's the same woman, as John's Janet was born abt 1800 (if a woman I found in C81 is her AND if the age she gave in it is correct  ) while William Snr's Janet was having children in the early 1800's. The William LATTA group seem to be very much involved in the shipping occupations.
As always, it'll all seem clear as crystal once one has spent countless hours at large, and a good few quid on Scotlands People - all part of the fun of the chase :-) Sigh, I wish I lived over there and could go on wonderful hunting safari's !
Thanks for your message !
Cheers
Anne
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ibi
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My tuppence-worth is that I'd lean towards Steele, but wouldn't rule out Hall before I had a chance to see elsewhere how this clerk forms his capitals.
BTW, the hand is far from pure Secretary hand, but a reasonably modern hand, retaining a few elements of Secretary hand, particularly in the capitals; and is that a yogh in the middle of the occupation?, - see http://www.scottishhandwriting.com/content/default.asp?page=s4_3_15
ibi
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mrst
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Well Ann , you would need to take a bloody big umberella to go on safari here in Dumbarton . Cannot believe it is July and is pouring with rain . 
Looks like you have got it sussed with the family investigation but if you need any info on Sunny Dumbarton let me know
All the best
mrst
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