1554 handwriting defeats me

[chinakay]

Although there is a very nice beer available here called 1554...taken from a Belgian recipe from that year. Apparently their first challenge was deciphering the handwriting. Imagine that

Onwards...can anyone read the middle line of this PR from Halifax please?

Cheers,
China

[Alexander.]

Annes filia georgij ?awd de Halifax bapt'
Agnes daughter of George ?awd of Halifax baptised

I'm sure the surname is the important bit but I wouldn't like to guess. It might help if we could see a bit more of the page to compare letters.

Alexander

[chinakay]

Thanks for your interest, Alexander. Here's a bigger crop, and the line is still more or less in the middle.

Ancestry transcribed the forename as James but it does look like filia, doesn't it

Cheers,
China

[Winslass]

Hi Chinakay,
I see the third word as 'Gregory'.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Winslass.

[Redroger]

I also see that word as Gregory

[Alexander.]

I've been looking at this again and I think the surname may be 'crawd' or 'crowd', with the c and the r very close together as the 'or' in 'georgij' are. The old way of writing an r dropped below the line makes it particularly difficult to read. The first letter looks very similar to the c in Michell two lines below.

I can't read the father's name as Gregory any way I look at it I'm afraid.

[chinakay]

Okay...the names have been transcribed as James son of Peggy Jubb.

I don't buy the Peggy bit...but is there any case for the rest of it? Especially the Jubb?

Cheers,
China

[Alexander.]

Jubb? There's no way that says Jubb. Am I reading the right line?

[chinakay]

6th full line down