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Title: need help to understand this text
Post by: lepicard on Sunday 17 March 24 16:21 GMT (UK)
Hello

English is not my mother tongue.
I can read some sentences but some words are difficult to read. So I need some help to read the following text
Thank you for your help
Patrick

"Mary Fitzgerald wife of Garrat Fitzgerald living in Charles Street in the parish of
Covent Garden in the county of Middlesex.....
Title: Re: need help to understand this text
Post by: janan on Sunday 17 March 24 16:36 GMT (UK)
Here is some of the next bit

......Paruke maker aged 45 years or there abouts being a witness ...... sworn ..... this 30th day of March in the year of our lord god 1715 in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord King George

Peruke makers made men's wigs see https://www.graemepark.org/18th-century-occupations-the-peruke-maker/
Title: Re: need help to understand this text
Post by: lepicard on Sunday 17 March 24 16:52 GMT (UK)
Quote from: janan on Sunday 17 March 24 16:36 GMT (UK)
Here is some of the next bit

......Paruke maker aged 45 years or there abouts being a witness ...... sworn ..... this 30th day of March in the year of our lord god 1715 in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord King George

Peruke makers made men's wigs see https://www.graemepark.org/18th-century-occupations-the-peruke-maker/

Thank you . is it the same word as periwig maker ? in french : perruquier
Title: Re: need help to understand this text
Post by: horselydown86 on Sunday 17 March 24 16:56 GMT (UK)
Here are the sections not already done.

...being a witnesse p(ro)duced Sworne & exa(m)i(n)ed the 30th...

...for and on the p(ar)te & behalfe of the Compl(ainan)t deposeth and saith as followeth...
Title: Re: need help to understand this text
Post by: heywood on Sunday 17 March 24 17:47 GMT (UK)
Quote from: lepicard on Sunday 17 March 24 16:52 GMT (UK)
Quote from: janan on Sunday 17 March 24 16:36 GMT (UK)
Here is some of the next bit

......Paruke maker aged 45 years or there abouts being a witness ...... sworn ..... this 30th day of March in the year of our lord god 1715 in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord King George

Peruke makers made men's wigs see https://www.graemepark.org/18th-century-occupations-the-peruke-maker/

Thank you . is it the same word as periwig maker ? in french : perruquier

I would say so and the text says ‘Peruke’, I think, rather that ‘Paruke’. Compare the ‘a’ and ‘e’ in Charles.
Title: Re: need help to understand this text
Post by: janan on Monday 18 March 24 14:04 GMT (UK)
Quote from: heywood on Sunday 17 March 24 17:47 GMT (UK)
the text says ‘Peruke’, I think, rather that ‘Paruke’. Compare the ‘a’ and ‘e’ in Charles.

Yes I agree  :)
Title: Re: need help to understand this text
Post by: lepicard on Monday 18 March 24 14:07 GMT (UK)
Quote from: janan on Monday 18 March 24 14:04 GMT (UK)
Quote from: heywood on Sunday 17 March 24 17:47 GMT (UK)
the text says ‘Peruke’, I think, rather that ‘Paruke’. Compare the ‘a’ and ‘e’ in Charles.

Yes I agree  :)

Thanks a lot!