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Norfolk / 1802 will for Thomas Chamberlain of East Dereham
« on: Sunday 28 March 21 16:10 BST (UK)  »
The NROCAT reference for this is:

Reference code   ANF will register 1802-1804 fo. 116 (1802 no. 86)
Title    Chamberlain, Thomas, of East Dereham
Date(s)   1802 (Creation)

I have found all the other Norfolk wills I want on the Familysearch website but can't find this one where I thought it would be in the Norfolk probate records (in either of the two places I looked). I'm sure I'm doing something stupid, but can someone point me in the right direction please?

Richard

11
Norfolk / Surely these two 18th century Drury Layts are related
« on: Friday 26 March 21 10:48 GMT (UK)  »
Wills and parish registers make this tree very likely:

James LAYT (d1675) m J(o)an(e)
       1. James (1649-1722) m 1672 Grace BRIGHT
               a. Drury m Diana (d1730)
                        i.  Grace (1704-)
                        ii. Susan (1707- )
                        iii. Drury (1711-41) m1 1731 Elizabeth THIRLING (d1732)
                                                           1. Thomasin (1732-)
                                                       m2 1735 Esther HOLYDAY (m2 1745 Abraham BLANCHFLOWER)
                                                           2. Edmund (1736-36)
                                                           3. Daniel (1737-?1771)
                                                           4. Sarah (1740-) m? 1760 Henry ROBBINS
                       iv. James (1714-) m 1754 Mary HEWMAN
                       v. Thomas (1717-) m 1747 Susannah HART
               b. Jane
       2. John (1651-1653)

This family was based in Ovington.

Fifteen miles to the north-east this marriage took place:
1755  Drury LAYTE of Great Witchingham & Ann FILLIHOE

The only child I can find from this marriage is Mary (b1756) who married Robert CLARKE in 1775.

The Drury Layte who married in 1755 can't be the one who died in 1741 and is hugely unlikely to be his 80 year-old father. There is space for him to be born in the gap 1732-5 (his putative mother is not clear as one wife died in 1732 and the next married in 1735) but there is nothing in the Ovington register. James (d1765) mentions only two grandchildren in his will (Drury and Jane) but there could, of course, be another who then named a son after his brother.

I can find no other information about Drury and Ann (nee FILLIHOE) LAYT.

Any suggestions?

Richard

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Two more very different capital A's from the same man - is it possible?
« on: Friday 19 February 21 16:55 GMT (UK)  »
When Roger Andrews died in 1758 his will mentions his children John, Sarah Andrews and Elizabeth Hixon; and his grandson Roger Andrews.

When his daughter Sarah died in 1760 her brother John, an innkeeper in Durrington, Wilts, dealt with her assets. His signature is attached.

John Andrews married Thomasine in 1737; the signature on his marriage licence is attached. I know this is the same John as John and Thomasine had children in Collingbourne Ducis until 1748; John bought an inn in Durrington (the Nag's Head) in 1749; and he and Thomasine had at least two children in Durrington (Roger, 1755; Susannah 1759) before Thomasine and two daughters died of smallpox in 1759/60.

Although the two signatures have similarities, the A's are completely different. Is this normal/possible?

I posed a very similar question about his grandson here recently:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=842938.msg7096678#msg7096678

Richard

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Can one person have such different signatures?
« on: Sunday 17 January 21 13:09 GMT (UK)  »
This post is about siblings John and Sarah Andrews. In 1797 Sarah's marriage was witnessed by a John Andrews witnessed the marriage of John (John III). Four years later a John Andrews witnessed her marriage (John IV). I have found no possible John except her brother, but the capital 'A' and small 'd' are very different.

I have also attached John and Sarah's father's signature in 1765 (John II), which looks quite like that of his son in 1797; and their likely grandfather's signature in 1760 (John I) which looks quite like the 1801 signature!

Any thoughts?

Richard

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Wiltshire / Is this the right Sarah Andrews?
« on: Wednesday 13 January 21 17:12 GMT (UK)  »
In the 1851 census Sarah Pike's entry states that she was born in about 1775/6 in Axford, Wiltshire. Axford is part of Ramsbury but is actually closer to Mildenhall. As Sarah Andrews she married James Pike in 1801.

Four marriage entries where everyone is a witness to each others weddings suggest strongly that Sarah had at least two siblings: Elizabeth (m 1799) and John (m 1797).

There is a strong candidate for her and her siblings' baptisms in these entries:

Children of John and Sarah Andrews (possibly married 1765 Collingbourne Kingston):

Kitty (privately baptised 1765/admitted to the congregation 1767) Mildenhall
John 1768 Mildenhall (John, father, described as of Ramsbury; Sarah as of Axford)
Thomas 1770 Ramsbury
Elizabeth 1773-73 Ramsbury
Robert 1774-75 Ramsbury
Elizabeth 1775 Ramsbury
Sarah 1777 Ramsbury
(there are two later baptisms in Froxfield that may also be siblings)

...all of which works very well except that there is a burial for a Sarah d John and Sarah in 1778. It seems unlikely that this is another couple and I can't find another baptism for Sarah.

Any thoughts on whether this is the right family?

Richard

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Scotland / Interpreting 1719 sasine
« on: Wednesday 22 July 20 15:51 BST (UK)  »
Later wills suggest that John Gaff inherited/bought/was given land by the Duke of Hamilton in 1719.
I have now bought the 1719 sasine (attached) and I am clearly missing something as the land appears to have been inherited from his recently dead father, James Gaff, and I don't really understand the involvement of the Duke of Hamilton.

The sasine is not particularly easy to read, but is not too bad. I assume this is some sort of land dispute but I would be grateful for a better interpretation.

Richard

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Reading baptismal entry
« on: Sunday 21 June 20 14:28 BST (UK)  »
This is the baptismal entry for Thomas John Smart in 1785.
The usual wording at the end is 'Rector' although 'Poor' and 'Workhouse' appear quite regularly.
This appears to say 'Searcher's son' which makes no sense to me (unless it may mean a non-conformist or non-believer)

Can anyone make better sense of it, please?

Richard

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Hertfordshire / Chipping Barnet burials
« on: Tuesday 26 May 20 19:04 BST (UK)  »
Are these online? One source says they are on Findmypast but nothing comes up.
I am hoping to find the age at death (c80) of Elizabeth Thompson who died there in 1798 (her husband, Leonard, died there in 1764).

Richard

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Unreadable name in 1772 baptism
« on: Friday 08 May 20 22:29 BST (UK)  »
The attached is from the registers of St Faith under St Paul's, City of London.

The date is Jan 1772 and the parents are John and Martha Brown. I think it says 'son of...0 but the name defeats me. Whoever it was probably died fairly young as, unlike the other children, he wasn't mentioned in wills.

Richard

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