Hello all can some one tell me what (als) means.
Als is short for
Alias. It simply means 'otherwise'. It identifies
any alternative name by which someone was known.
If you look at the image of this record, rather than at Ancestry's half-baked attempt to index it, you will see that the actual source is the
Index of Acts of Administration in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury (PCC) for 1653-54, volume 3 (
not 111), folio 196.
A
grant of administration is made when someone applies to the court to handle the estate of someone who had died
without leaving a valid will.
So this entry suggests that Milburge BUCKE, otherwise known as Milburge FAWCONER, of Kingsclere in Hampshire, had died by 1653/54 without leaving a valid will, and that someone had applied to the court to handle her estate.
The original records of grants of Administration in the PCC, which would tell you who that person was, are no longer held at Somerset House. They are the National Archives (PROB 6). They are not online.
A
possible interpretation of
als in this case is that FAWCONER/FALKNER (or a variant) was the married surname of Milburge BUCKE. Have you tried looking for a marriage for Milburge?
It may be difficult to pursue this, as it is the Commonwealth Period, when records can be a bit thin on the ground.