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need help to understand this text
« on: Sunday 17 March 24 16:21 GMT (UK) »
Hello

English is not my mother tongue.
I can read some sentences but some words are difficult to read. So I need some help to read the following text
Thank you for your help
Patrick

"Mary Fitzgerald wife of Garrat Fitzgerald living in Charles Street in the parish of
Covent Garden in the county of Middlesex.....

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« Reply #1 on: Sunday 17 March 24 16:36 GMT (UK) »
Here is some of the next bit

......Paruke maker aged 45 years or there abouts being a witness ...... sworn ..... this 30th day of March in the year of our lord god 1715 in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord King George

Peruke makers made men's wigs see https://www.graemepark.org/18th-century-occupations-the-peruke-maker/
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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« Reply #2 on: Sunday 17 March 24 16:52 GMT (UK) »
Here is some of the next bit

......Paruke maker aged 45 years or there abouts being a witness ...... sworn ..... this 30th day of March in the year of our lord god 1715 in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord King George

Peruke makers made men's wigs see https://www.graemepark.org/18th-century-occupations-the-peruke-maker/

Thank you . is it the same word as periwig maker ? in french : perruquier

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« Reply #3 on: Sunday 17 March 24 16:56 GMT (UK) »
Here are the sections not already done.

...being a witnesse p(ro)duced Sworne & exa(m)i(n)ed the 30th...

...for and on the p(ar)te & behalfe of the Compl(ainan)t deposeth and saith as followeth...



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« Reply #4 on: Sunday 17 March 24 17:47 GMT (UK) »
Here is some of the next bit

......Paruke maker aged 45 years or there abouts being a witness ...... sworn ..... this 30th day of March in the year of our lord god 1715 in the first year of the reign of our sovereign lord King George

Peruke makers made men's wigs see https://www.graemepark.org/18th-century-occupations-the-peruke-maker/

Thank you . is it the same word as periwig maker ? in french : perruquier

I would say so and the text says ‘Peruke’, I think, rather that ‘Paruke’. Compare the ‘a’ and ‘e’ in Charles.
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« Reply #5 on: Monday 18 March 24 14:04 GMT (UK) »
the text says ‘Peruke’, I think, rather that ‘Paruke’. Compare the ‘a’ and ‘e’ in Charles.

Yes I agree  :)
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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« Reply #6 on: Monday 18 March 24 14:07 GMT (UK) »
the text says ‘Peruke’, I think, rather that ‘Paruke’. Compare the ‘a’ and ‘e’ in Charles.

Yes I agree  :)

Thanks a lot!