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Offline lanercost

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Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« on: Sunday 23 August 15 09:55 BST (UK) »
Could anyone weigh in on deciphering this letter? I've had a go (which I've attached alongside a scan of the original) but I've had to come ask for your help and opinions.

Thank you.

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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 23 August 15 09:59 BST (UK) »
y?? is going (last line)
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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 23 August 15 10:06 BST (UK) »
possibly . . .

I am 'perfect'(don't recognise this word really)  up in bed ? to cure

me.    I have got a good strong 'service'??

 'we are going to call her Ann' . . . . .   Yours Ellen -( or Helen - or Eileen.)    :-\

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Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 23 August 15 10:06 BST (UK) »
Quote from: PaulineJ on Sunday 23 August 15 09:59 BST (UK)
y?? is going (last line)

Quote from: Wiggy on Sunday 23 August 15 10:06 BST (UK)
last line   . . .' are going to call'

Oh I see. Perhaps the bottom line is "we are going to call her then" in regards to naming her daughter?

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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 23 August 15 10:08 BST (UK) »
Last line

"we are going to call her ..."
Gorton
Payne
Cornwallis
Duncombe
Rennex
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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 23 August 15 10:13 BST (UK) »
Quote from: fab3bird on Sunday 23 August 15 10:06 BST (UK)
Quote from: PaulineJ on Sunday 23 August 15 09:59 BST (UK)
y?? is going (last line)

Quote from: Wiggy on Sunday 23 August 15 10:06 BST (UK)
last line   . . .' are going to call'

Oh I see. Perhaps the bottom line is "we are going to call her then" in regards to naming her daughter?

I think the word you are reading as "then" on the last line is a name.

Maybe starting with H or A.
Gorton
Payne
Cornwallis
Duncombe
Rennex
Praeger

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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 23 August 15 10:19 BST (UK) »
Quote from: GUT on Sunday 23 August 15 10:13 BST (UK)
Quote from: fab3bird on Sunday 23 August 15 10:06 BST (UK)
Quote from: PaulineJ on Sunday 23 August 15 09:59 BST (UK)
y?? is going (last line)

Quote from: Wiggy on Sunday 23 August 15 10:06 BST (UK)
last line   . . .' are going to call'

Oh I see. Perhaps the bottom line is "we are going to call her then" in regards to naming her daughter?

I think the word you are reading as "then" on the last line is a name.

Maybe starting with H or A.

Thanks for this suggestion! The letter was being sent to an Ann, so the person writing the letter may have been writing to inform her that the child would be named after her.

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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #7 on: Sunday 23 August 15 10:21 BST (UK) »
Sorry Fab3bird - I was working on the first reply while you were answering - trying to see the letter and answer at the same time so  . . .  go back and see the various changes I have suggested.
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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Re: Would like some help with this letter from 1851
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 23 August 15 10:23 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Wiggy on Sunday 23 August 15 10:21 BST (UK)
Sorry Fab3bird - I was working on the first reply while you were answering - trying to see the letter and answer at the same time so  . . .  go back and see the various changes I have suggested.

Yep and I'd had three shots before I realized I could scroll across and some hadn't been cut off.
Gorton
Payne
Cornwallis
Duncombe
Rennex
Praeger
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