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Offline wemorin3

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Re: Help Reading Older Script
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 18 February 18 17:07 GMT (UK) »
Salop is a name for Shropshire. A Salopian is a person who lives/was born in the county.
According to Your Dictionary website* Salop is Early Middle English, a shortening of Salopescira from Old English Scropscir and possibly from Scrobbesbyrigscir.
Some of those words are proper Old English. What was written the census return was modern English, only a century or so since! I expected to see an extract in Secretary Hand or similar.  ;D
* Definition from Webster's New World College Dictionary 5th Edition 2014
www.yourdictionary.com/salop

Thank you.