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Messages - Charlie Bucket

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The Common Room / Re: Is this a Queen Anne Chair?
« on: Wednesday 31 January 24 07:25 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you everyone.
I'd never heard of a nursing chair and now the chair means a bit more to me.

Charlie

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The Common Room / Is this a Queen Anne Chair?
« on: Tuesday 30 January 24 02:49 GMT (UK)  »
Hello.

My mother called this chair a Queen Anne chair.
Does anyone know if it is?

Thanks, Charlie

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« on: Thursday 25 January 24 02:17 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you both very much.

Charlie

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« on: Wednesday 24 January 24 02:13 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks so much.
The English Dialect Dictionary, which I've never come across before, has already been useful.
I found "bigg" in it, a type of barley but haven't looked up any other words from the inventory yet.
The dictionary has some wonderful words in it, unfortunately no longer used.
Lucky person indeed, a lease in Paradise.

Charlie

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with 1646 inventory please
« on: Tuesday 23 January 24 18:45 GMT (UK)  »
That's great what you've done, horseleydown. I'm very grateful.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with 1646 inventory please
« on: Tuesday 23 January 24 07:25 GMT (UK)  »
Hello

Any help deciphering any of the entries in the inventory (divided into two parts) would be much appreciated.
I can make out, I think, 7 logs of wood, 11 bushells of rye and one old mare...
 

Charlie

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The Common Room / Re: Malt from a farmer in 1646. What would people be buying it for?
« on: Monday 27 November 23 02:41 GMT (UK)  »
Those documents are very useful and interesting.
Thank you very much Kay.
Much appreciated.

Charlie

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The Common Room / Malt from a farmer in 1646. What would people be buying it for?
« on: Sunday 26 November 23 03:32 GMT (UK)  »
Hello.
As added material to a will, there is a list dated 1646 of the debts owing to the wife of the dead person.
They all relate to various amounts of malt, typically three bushels or a load or simply "for malt" or another measurement I can't decipher.
There's about 25 people on the list.
What would they be buying the malt for?
Horse feed? Brewing?
The farm was in Durham, England.
Charlie

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Details written on back of photo of a photo shoot 1800s
« on: Monday 02 October 23 01:55 BST (UK)  »
Thank you very much everyone. Good suggestions.
I'll keep pondering this but may not reach a definitive answer.

Charlie

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