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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Rochdalian on Monday 14 September 20 06:27 BST (UK)
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I need help please deciphering some words on the marriage entry, forth line down on the attachment.
The transcription gave me 'John Blackburne & Beatrice Lamason 1 July 1627'.
My concerns are the brides surname which does not look like Lamason more like Lauraston and also the word after her surname, which may be a place name?
Cheers & Stay Safe
Bob
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It's a good thing you asked:
...& Beatrice Lancaster the seventeenth day [ie of July]
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Absolutely agree with Horselydown.
Bob -- it's a long 'S' in Lancaster. Also, if you look at the other entries - they all end with the handwritten date.
(As an aside - what a coincidence that you have 2 people with surnames from place names in the County of Lancashire - marrying at Birstall in Yorkshire!
Maybe originally ----way back in 13c both families heralded from those settlements - thereby being given their names).
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Thanks Horselydown and Pennines. Amazing what you can see once it's pointed out.
Good point you make there Pennines about their names, very interesting.
Cheers & Stay Safe
Bob
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Bob - funnily enough I also have a Blackburn line in West Yorkshire (Mirfield) - I found that it was sometimes spelt Blegburne or Blagburn - although you have already got a long way back with yours so that might not affect you.
It was the way it was often pronounced - even in my living memory!!
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Yes, my Blackburn ancestors seem to be around Mirfield/Wakefield/Birstall/Batley area. Can't say I've come across those other spellings just sometimes having an 'e' on the end.
My 6xgreat grandfather Samuel Blackburn (b 1683) was a clothier of Hopton which I believe is part of Mirfield. His daughter Martha married William Pearson and that's were I come in.
Bob
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Yes, my Blackburn ancestors seem to be around Mirfield/Wakefield/Birstall/Batley area. Can't say I've come across those other spellings just sometimes having an 'e' on the end.
My 6xgreat grandfather Samuel Blackburn (b 1683) was a clothier of Hopton which I believe is part of Mirfield. His daughter Martha married William Pearson and that's were I come in.
Bob
The magic name PEARSON, is also in my tree and yes so is Birstall where Mary Pearson baptised there married Eli Collins there in 1768 and that is where I come in.
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Oh wow - yes Hopton and Birstall feature a lot in the events of my West Yorkshire ancestors.
Perhaps all of our ancestors knew one another!!
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Oh wow - yes Hopton and Birstall feature a lot in the events of my West Yorkshire ancestors.
Perhaps all of our ancestors knew one another!!
Pretty sure that a lot must have known each other and I see from your signature that you have Townend in your family from the area as I do with Emily Townend born c 1864.
My Wife and I have ancestors who must have attended the same Chapel in Great Horton and we even share a DNA match with another person.
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Biggles - how amazing that you and your wife share a DNA match.
I have just checked back on my Townends - Birstall and ended up in Liversedge. Funnily enough my earliest Townend (John b about 1713) -- married an Anne Preston.
This fits into the original theme of Rochdalians query - where 2 Lancashire town surnames married in Birstall (Lancaster and Blackburn). So I have another person with a Lancashire town surname (Preston) -- living in that area! There must have been a horse and coach trip over the Pennines!
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Biggles - how amazing that you and your wife share a DNA match.
I have just checked back on my Townends - Birstall and ended up in Liversedge. Funnily enough my earliest Townend (John b about 1713) -- married an Anne Preston.
This fits into the original theme of Rochdalians query - where 2 Lancashire town surnames married in Birstall (Lancaster and Blackburn). So I have another person with a Lancashire town surname (Preston) -- living in that area! There must have been a horse and coach trip over the Pennines!
Finding the shared DNA match with my Wife was surreal, I clicked on DNA and it showed photo images of eight matches to my Wife, I then clicked to change the DNA matches to me and one of the images stayed the same.
My Wife has town/village names, Osbaldeston, Houghton, Radcliffe, Mellor, Preston, Astley, and one local to Rochdale namely Bamforth in her tree.
Whilst I have Broughton and Heysham.
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I wonder if that's some sort of record for the number of obvious place names in someone's ancestry!
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I wonder if that's some sort of record for the number of obvious place names in someone's ancestry!
It is sort of sad that I remembered those names without having to look them up.