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Title: cannot get to grips with this bit :)
Post by: Finley 1 on Monday 27 May 19 16:42 BST (UK)
any help appreciated


with the final part of this will...

:)


xin
Title: Re: cannot get to grips with this bit :)
Post by: Finley 1 on Monday 27 May 19 17:06 BST (UK)
By the way - I think the child was a girl named Dority :(

xin
Title: Re: cannot get to grips with this bit :)
Post by: horselydown86 on Monday 27 May 19 17:51 BST (UK)
...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?
Title: Re: cannot get to grips with this bit :)
Post by: Drosybont on Monday 27 May 19 18:39 BST (UK)
Perhaps Cooare = co-heir?

Drosybont
Title: Re: cannot get to grips with this bit :)
Post by: horselydown86 on Monday 27 May 19 19:06 BST (UK)
Perhaps Cooare = co-heir?

Good thought, Drosybont.
Title: Re: cannot get to grips with this bit :)
Post by: Finley 1 on Monday 27 May 19 19:30 BST (UK)
Brilliant :)
Thank you

and the expected childs baptism was on the same page as his burial.... :( 

much appreciated


xin