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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Meaning of 'Lgt' under Condition column in st pancras workhouse register
« on: Wednesday 17 April 24 20:07 BST (UK)  »
The Condition column in this register is used mainly to describe marital status (single, married, widowed), rather than health. If your two individuals were children, then Lgt. may stand for Legitimate.

Would that fit the entries that you have? If not, would you like to post the details, so that those who have access can look at the relevant entries in context?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Latin - John Lucas
« on: Wednesday 17 April 24 11:30 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Watson on Wednesday 17 April 24 11:24 BST (UK)
One small suggestion: I think the date of probate was 29 (not 20) February 1423.

Agreed. So even more likely to be 1423/24.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Latin - John Lucas
« on: Wednesday 17 April 24 10:54 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Vance Mead on Wednesday 17 April 24 10:40 BST (UK)
To son Henry household utensils

I would read this as: ... to my son Henry and to his brothers all my household utensils.

Proved 20 February 1423 (presumably 1423/24).

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The Common Room / Re: Workhouse abbreviation
« on: Tuesday 16 April 24 23:55 BST (UK)  »
I think FPH stands for From Poplar House, meaning 'admitted from Poplar Workhouse'.

The Stepney union and the Poplar union were adjacent and shared some facilities. Bromley House, though managed by Stepney, was actually located in St Leonard's Street, Poplar.

https://www.workhouses.org.uk/Poplar/#Post-1834
“During this period, Poplar had an arrangement with the adjacent Stepney union to accommodate its other classes of inmate, with the aged and infirm going to Stepney’s workhouse at Bromley …"


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Probate comment - 1530
« on: Tuesday 16 April 24 08:31 BST (UK)  »
Proved in the church at Mallyng before Master Henry Holywod, commissary in this matter, on 18 July, administration to the executor(s).

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Wales / Re: Understanding court documents from 1890
« on: Tuesday 09 April 24 15:47 BST (UK)  »
Education – not 'lwp' but Imp, for ‘Imperfectly’, referring to the prisoner’s ability to read/write.

HL is Hard Labour, and there is plenty of information online if you search. Try this link as a starter ...
https://visitvictorianengland.com/2019/05/07/hard-labour-in-victorian-prisons/

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Latin Letter 1565
« on: Saturday 06 April 24 09:59 BST (UK)  »
Zefiro, I’m sorry that I don’t have time to do this for you. The handwriting is clear enough, but the wording is florid, extravagant and outside my normal remit, and it would take too long for me to shape it into an elegant translation for you.

Perhaps another of our Latin helpers would like to take it on? This post will push it further up the board.

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Derbyshire / Re: Sealed Will
« on: Thursday 04 April 24 13:20 BST (UK)  »
If I remember correctly, for a will proved elsewhere before 1963 and sealed in England, the probate registry here keeps a copy of the will for only 50 years. So they probably no longer have a copy of your will from 1961.

Quote from: Andy J2022 on Thursday 04 April 24 12:42 BST (UK)
The copy you get does not have the seal.

Perhaps because it is not the will that is sealed, but the grant.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Question mark?
« on: Wednesday 03 April 24 20:40 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: Shrop63 on Wednesday 03 April 24 19:30 BST (UK)
Ok

A lot of people have tried to help you on this thread, but never a word of thanks.

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