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Burial register deciphering
« on: Friday 04 August 17 15:32 BST (UK) »
Hi all,

Can anyone help work out what it says after Thomas Wiltshire's name on this burial register please?

All I keep seeing is Shoe Boxer but I have no idea if that's a thing or not!

Thank you  :)

Sprague (Essex and Somerset)
Clark (Essex, Suffolk spec. Glemsford)
Taylor (Wiltshire spec. Hilmarton, Calne, Tockenham, Lyneham)
Light (Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire)
Kirton (Wiltshire)
Dean (Wiltshire)
Newbury (Wiltshire, Gloucestershire)
Hillier (Wiltshire spec. Avebury)
Hogg (Gloucestershire)
Bromfield (Devon)

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Re: Burial register deciphering
« Reply #1 on: Friday 04 August 17 15:42 BST (UK) »
Thomas Wiltshire Shop-keeper was bury’d Jan. 16th & Aff(idavit) brought.

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Re: Burial register deciphering
« Reply #2 on: Friday 04 August 17 15:45 BST (UK) »
Would never have got shop keeper, it did look more like shoe boxer  ;D
Hinchliffe - Huddersfield Wiltshire
Burroughs - Arlingham Glos
Pick - Frocester Glos

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Re: Burial register deciphering
« Reply #3 on: Friday 04 August 17 15:50 BST (UK) »
Ahhhhhh shop keeper!! Thank you!!  ;D

What does it mean that an affidavit was brought? Does that mean that there's a will?
Sprague (Essex and Somerset)
Clark (Essex, Suffolk spec. Glemsford)
Taylor (Wiltshire spec. Hilmarton, Calne, Tockenham, Lyneham)
Light (Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire)
Kirton (Wiltshire)
Dean (Wiltshire)
Newbury (Wiltshire, Gloucestershire)
Hillier (Wiltshire spec. Avebury)
Hogg (Gloucestershire)
Bromfield (Devon)

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Re: Burial register deciphering
« Reply #4 on: Friday 04 August 17 16:14 BST (UK) »
Quote from: thelilradish on Friday 04 August 17 15:50 BST (UK)
What does it mean that an affidavit was brought? Does that mean that there's a will?

No, it means an affidavit was produced stating that Thomas Wiltshire had been buried in woollen. This relates to a series of parliamentary Acts for Burying in Woollen (1660s-1670s), which required people to be buried in pure woollen shrouds, allegedly to assist the ailing English woollen industry. Some early parish registers are annotated to show this.

You don’t give a date or place for the above burial, but this link explains the background ...
http://dorset-ancestors.com/?p=709

There will also be lots of RootsChat threads on burying in woollen if you use the Search function.

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The full text of the Act as amended in 1677 can be found here ...
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~framland/acts/1677.htm

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Re: Burial register deciphering
« Reply #5 on: Friday 04 August 17 16:25 BST (UK) »
Hi Bookbox,

Thank you for this explanation and the links. It's really interesting; I had no idea!

Selina
Sprague (Essex and Somerset)
Clark (Essex, Suffolk spec. Glemsford)
Taylor (Wiltshire spec. Hilmarton, Calne, Tockenham, Lyneham)
Light (Somerset, Gloucestershire, Wiltshire)
Kirton (Wiltshire)
Dean (Wiltshire)
Newbury (Wiltshire, Gloucestershire)
Hillier (Wiltshire spec. Avebury)
Hogg (Gloucestershire)
Bromfield (Devon)
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