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Re: Decipher help needed
« Reply #9 on: Monday 08 February 16 08:11 GMT (UK) »
Having played with the original, it looks like "Wrong O'Dhonalie" perhaps a mispellingof "O'Donnaly"

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Re: Decipher help needed
« Reply #10 on: Monday 08 February 16 08:18 GMT (UK) »
By George (I think) you've got it!  You clever thing, you.  Well done Malky.

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Re: Decipher help needed
« Reply #11 on: Monday 08 February 16 10:57 GMT (UK) »
Id like to thank you all for helping, it is a tough one, I'm starting to think that it referencing  date's,
I will probably be incorrect but that's all I have managed so far.
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Re: Decipher help needed
« Reply #12 on: Monday 08 February 16 15:02 GMT (UK) »
It often helps to look at the bigger picture and see how the letters compare with others in the same hand. The big sweeping ascender in the middle of the second word for instance, if indeed it is one word and not two short ones :-\
Baskervill - Devon, Foss - Hants, Gentry - Essex, Metherell - Devon, Partridge - Essex/London, Press - Norfolk/London, Stone - Surrey/Sussex, Stuttle - Essex/London, Wheate - Middlesex/Essex/Coventry/Oxfordshire/Staffs, Gibson - Essex, Wyatt - Essex/Kent
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