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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: littlemissx77 on Sunday 10 January 21 17:55 GMT (UK)
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Can anyone help me decipher this will please. Some parts i can read but other parts are completely alien to me :)
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It could be an idea if you transcribe what you can read then we can fill in the gaps
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I can read the parts of the will that i did not post. These are just 2 sections that i'm struggling with. Apart from the odd word "burial", "daughter", and "Kimpton" i cannot decipher the rest.
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... my Body my Will is that it may be buried
in the same Grave with my three Infant
Daughters in the Church Yard of the said parish
of Kimpton as to the manner of my Burial I
leave ^that^ to the directions of my Executors herein-
after named First I will that my Debts and all
my Funeral Charges be discharged and the Ceremony
of proving this my Will in the Commons be
comply’d with if necessary Item I give and
bequeath to my beloved Wife Jane Percy all
and singular my Effects and property of every kind
and description and denomination as well Stock
in Farming Household Furniture also all the ...
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you are my hero, thank you
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Could you please tell me what name this is, after the word cousin...
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Jeremiah
The letters J and I are interchangeable in this hand. You will see the letter I coming up many times in the will.
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Thank you once again. Can I ask you to decipher one more word, seeing as you are so good at this ? 😁
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Go ahead. There are also plenty of others who may be able to help.
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Ok thanks, freehold something cottages??
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Freehold Messuage or Cottage
messuage = a dwelling house with outbuildings and land assigned to its use.
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Thanks for your help
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Please can someone help with the word. The sentence is I give and bequeath unto my said ? Elizabeth Broughton.
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Probably niece.
(There's no need to highlight text. It makes it harder to decipher.)
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Quine = woman, lady or girl
quite common in Aberdeenshire
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Thanks, is that an old Celtic (Scottish) word for a lady fiend
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This is a PCC will, so Aberdeenshire influence seems unlikely.
I agree with horselydown86 that it reads Niece.
The first letter is N; it has an initial flourish identical to that of the M in Messuage (see extract in reply #9).
The 2nd letter is clearly a dotted i.
The 3rd letter is a squared-off e, with its top running into the following letter.
The 4th letter is a short, right-angled c (looks like r in this hand).
The final letter is a different style of e, ‘backwards’, rounded and open.
All these letter-forms are typical of the court hand used in PCC wills at this period.
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Can I ask what a PCC will is please?
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PCC = Prerogative Court of Canterbury. Apologies for using an unexplained abbreviation.
Before 1858 all wills were proved in church courts, not in civil courts. The PCC was just one of many such courts, and the highest. It had jurisdiction over most of the southern part of England and Wales, and could also handle referrals from other probate courts.
The PCC probate records (wills etc.) are held at the National Archives. Those that you find online are copies, entered in the probate registers by clerks who were trained in this particular style of handwriting.
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So interesting and informative, thank you
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Thanks, is that an old Celtic (Scottish) word for a lady fiend
I guess it has the same origin as Queen. In Aberdeenshire they have ' Quines & Loons ', girls & boys.
From my early youth I knew a girl from Fife and she was nicknamed Queenie by her Grandmother, my neighbour, who had moved to the west coast of Scotland, yet her name was Christine. I asked the granny and was told all girls were quines. I was a befuddled 8 year old then, before and after.