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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with a word from an old will please?
« on: Tuesday 11 April 23 11:33 BST (UK)  »
I need a list of 17th-C Staffordshire dialect words! I'm about to attempt the inventory so maybe something will emerge there.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with a word from an old will please?
« on: Tuesday 11 April 23 10:45 BST (UK)  »
Yes, it does look like a yogh, thanks. Maybe a misspelling of chandelier?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with a word from an old will please?
« on: Monday 10 April 23 13:20 BST (UK)  »
Thanks - I’ll go with Hooks then - and thanks for the link Stanwix. Yes, I imagine things were passed down for generations.

Thanks also for pointing out the Dakyn name.

There’s an s on the end of the Chau/n word, right at the edge of the paper, and it’s the end of a sentence. Attached. His writing’s worse than mine! Assuming it was a clerk and she didn't write it herself.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with a word from an old will please?
« on: Monday 10 April 23 12:37 BST (UK)  »
Back to the initial letter: it could be a rather straightened out Sh as in the attached but "a pair of sylver shoobe" doesn't help either.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with a word from an old will please?
« on: Monday 10 April 23 11:11 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Goldie, I'm attaching a bigger slice which I have as reading:
Item I geve to Margery Davy.. my Daughter my beste sute of appell [apparel]
Item I geve to the same Margery Davy a pe.are of sylver ?oo?e
Item I geve to Joane Nabbe my daughter my best newe ?cowlet [coverlet]
Item I geve to Margaret Longdon my daughter a chaffinge Dyshe
Item I geve to Elizabeth Goodden my daughter a Brazen chaulnes

No, I can't see that initial letter anywhere else. Yes, I think you're right about "silver". Not sure about hooks - the h's elsewhere are very curly. Any guess at the final word please? Cauldron?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with a word from an old will please?
« on: Monday 10 April 23 10:36 BST (UK)  »
Can anyone make out the final word please? It’s from the 1618 will of a Staffordshire widow - she’s leaving items to her daughters. It looks to me like “a pe are of sylk ?oobe” - perhaps "a pair of silk ...."? Is Glove(s) a possibility? Thanks!

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The Common Room / Re: Victorian will - 500 years
« on: Saturday 10 July 21 14:57 BST (UK)  »
Thanks - yes, I need to look into that.

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The Common Room / Re: Victorian will - 500 years
« on: Saturday 10 July 21 14:05 BST (UK)  »
It’s a very long will (17 pages) with a lot of arrangements for annuities for the widow and other descendants. Although it reads that all the estates go to “to the use of” the trustees for 500 years, I suppose the clue is that the son and heir (and his heirs) can use them “in the meantime” subject to conditions. (I now know that the uncle trustee did in fact leave most of his estate to this same son and heir.)

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The Common Room / Re: Victorian will - 500 years
« on: Saturday 10 July 21 09:40 BST (UK)  »
Thanks Skoosh! Never thought of that!

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