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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Finley 1 on Monday 27 May 19 16:42 BST (UK)
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any help appreciated
with the final part of this will...
:)
xin
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By the way - I think the child was a girl named Dority :(
xin
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...Come to ye age of on and twenty provided ye Chilld my wife goos with all
doth proove a girll my will is that she shall be Cooare with ye reste of my [Chil?]
liqwis my will and plesueris that if any of my gerlls sholld dye before
thay Com to ye age of on and twenty to be Equall ly devited be tweene
ye servivers and for non payment of ether of a for sad botins they shhall and
ma Enter upon ye land and ye sam to holld untill thay ^be^ Payd this I make my
my [sic] last will and testime in witnes here of I have set my hand and seall
ye sixteeth day of november - 1721
Sealled Sined a published
in y preasence of us whos
hands are under Ritten
liqwis = likewise
sixteeth = sixth (I think) - but could it be sixteenth?
I'm not sure what Cooare or botins means. Is there a clue in the earlier text?
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Perhaps Cooare = co-heir?
Drosybont
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Perhaps Cooare = co-heir?
Good thought, Drosybont.
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Brilliant :)
Thank you
and the expected childs baptism was on the same page as his burial.... :(
much appreciated
xin