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I am no expert but he certainly didn't mary a Mary Atinton!
My poor attempt-
Mr John X(?)ivridge of Nickolas parysh of Abindon in the Conty of Berks and mistris Elizabeth Lye of this town were ma--- the --- day of October 1656

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I read it as Sinue, because the letters are slightly different shapes.
As genealogists we all come across dreadful writing at times, but it is often just as frustrating to get lovely clear writing and you still can't decide what it says!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1857 baptism: notes in margins
« on: Sunday 02 June 24 22:12 BST (UK)  »
I will have a stab at the left margin-
child youngest d... 85 in feb N 1935 therefore(triangle of 3 dots is a common abbreviation for therefore) born 1850
Sounds like the d word should be died?

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Technical Help / Re: Help with familysearch online tree
« on: Thursday 30 May 24 11:46 BST (UK)  »
But surely the whole point of the trees at Familysearch is that anyone can edit them? If you and your brother both have trees there then it is supposed to be easy for you to correct his. (without his permission) Then someone else can come along and combine them into one tree because they are obviously the same people. I don't know if it really is as easy as they make out, and for large trees I can see people not bothering, but you often hear of individuals being wrongly(or not) changed. So, for example LizzieW should be able to go to the tree with her uncle on it and correct the date of birth. But there will be nothing to stop someone else changing it back either if they don't agree with her reason for changing it.

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The Common Room / Re: Marriage Index Question
« on: Wednesday 22 May 24 22:54 BST (UK)  »
As far as I remember, the laws of inheritance have always said that if a man is not married to his so-called spouse then she is not automatically entitled to anything when he dies. Furthermore any children of the unmarried couple are technically illegitimate and therefore have no expectations either. Unmarried couples who want to provide for their family need to write a clear and precise will or get married or preferably both! There have been plenty of cases where the 'widow' got a nasty shock when her unmarried 'husband' died. Hopefully with all the changes in recent years this may no longer be the case, as so many people don't bother getting married now.

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The Lighter Side / Re: Family Habits
« on: Tuesday 23 April 24 11:10 BST (UK)  »
Old habits do die hard. My husband's grandmother was brought up in a tiny terrace house in the Manchester suberbs, which had very steep stairs. Eighty years later in a spacious semi-detached in Sale she still turned round and came down stairs backwards because she always had done.

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Cheshire / Re: Povar
« on: Saturday 13 April 24 21:05 BST (UK)  »
Peover is pronounced Peever so that is almost certainly the places they intended. Of course you still have a choice of Over Peover or Lower Peover (alias Peover Superior and Inferior) but at least they are next to each other.

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They look like traditional joiners aprons except they should have big front pockets and I can't tell if they have. Note that all the men at the front are wearing clogs except the one in the bowler hat.

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The Common Room / Re: Battles and Commanders names used as forenames
« on: Sunday 07 April 24 09:03 BST (UK)  »
Since females seem to be under-represented in this thread take a look at Pretoria. FreeBMD say there were 496 births of that name in 1900, compared with 1 in the years 1890-95

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