Author Topic: Will of Donald Clark,died 15 SEP 1853 • Petty, Inverness-shire, Scotland  (Read 1536 times)

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Having a challenge reading the will.  Have it as a PDF or a JPG but both too large to upload.  Concerned that a reduced resolution image may be too difficult to read.

Suggestions?
Dunbar, Clark,Bain, Lipp, Campbell, Pope, Barnard, Handcock, McAdams,Creath

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Re: Will of Donald Clark,died 15 SEP 1853 • Petty, Inverness-shire, Scotland
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 06 April 17 21:07 BST (UK) »
Can you cut it up and put it on in sections?

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Re: Will of Donald Clark,died 15 SEP 1853 • Petty, Inverness-shire, Scotland
« Reply #2 on: Monday 17 April 17 03:11 BST (UK) »
Revised image.  Hope it is readable
Dunbar, Clark,Bain, Lipp, Campbell, Pope, Barnard, Handcock, McAdams,Creath

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Re: Will of Donald Clark,died 15 SEP 1853 • Petty, Inverness-shire, Scotland
« Reply #3 on: Monday 17 April 17 07:35 BST (UK) »
It's still not readable.
I see it is only about 170 kb. You are allowed up to 500kb per image.
It would be better if you could use 'Snipping tool' (on a PC), (or 'Grab', on a MAc), to cut one page at a time to post, and as big a file as you can manage up to 500kb.

Good luck! :)
Lane, Burgess: Cheshire. Finney, Rogers, Gilman:Derbys
Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
Bainbridge, Christman, Jeffs: Staffs


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Re: Will of Donald Clark,died 15 SEP 1853 • Petty, Inverness-shire, Scotland
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 20 April 17 16:58 BST (UK) »
Trying again

Dunbar, Clark,Bain, Lipp, Campbell, Pope, Barnard, Handcock, McAdams,Creath

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Re: Will of Donald Clark,died 15 SEP 1853 • Petty, Inverness-shire, Scotland
« Reply #5 on: Thursday 27 April 17 20:31 BST (UK) »
Is the most recent image readable? 
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Re: Will of Donald Clark,died 15 SEP 1853 • Petty, Inverness-shire, Scotland
« Reply #6 on: Friday 28 April 17 11:18 BST (UK) »
Is the most recent image readable?

It would be very much better if you could follow the advice given in replies ##1 and 3, splitting it into smaller sections and posting one or two at a time. There's help with that given in this thread ...
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,130922.0.html

Posting the whole page in this way is somewhat daunting, and it may also infringe copyright (see the top of the image).

Much of the handwriting is fairly straightforward, once you get used to it. So perhaps you could have a try yourself at transcribing some of it, post what you've done, and ask for help with the more difficult parts?

That's the way this board generally works best.

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Re: Will of Donald Clark,died 15 SEP 1853 • Petty, Inverness-shire, Scotland
« Reply #7 on: Friday 28 April 17 22:23 BST (UK) »
Here's a start for you:

The bit in the box, which you probably have already, says.
Inventary of the personal Estate of the late
Mr Donald Clark Schoolmaster of the Parish of Petty.


Then it goes on to say.
At Inverness the sea[  ]
day of January in the year
one thousand eight hundred
and fifty five. In presence of George Young Esquire Ad[   ]
commisary of the commisariat of Inverness. Compeared
William
/ William Ross Grant Solicitor in Inverness........


'compeared' = appeared
I could guess at the other two words I've left unfinished, but it's not really possible to see all the letters clearly in this scan.
As has been said, you need to post small bits of it, which can then be  zoomed in on and not lose their definition.
As Bookbox says, perhaps you could try and transcribe some yourself now, and post the bits you get stuck with.
Lane, Burgess: Cheshire. Finney, Rogers, Gilman:Derbys
Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
Bainbridge, Christman, Jeffs: Staffs

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Re: Will of Donald Clark,died 15 SEP 1853 • Petty, Inverness-shire, Scotland
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 26 November 17 21:13 GMT (UK) »
New image and two to follow
Dunbar, Clark,Bain, Lipp, Campbell, Pope, Barnard, Handcock, McAdams,Creath