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The worst old document I have come across was in Latin, and in court hand. My Latin is a bit rusty, and later Latin users often "bastardised" words. Normally I can muddle through, but the court hand script threw me.
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I might take you up on that but I would have to see which one could be the more fruitful. I put the information on the back-burner because wills frustrate me so much. Most of them are like gobbledygook to me, I looked at the link Elizabeth posted and I can't read a word of it.
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lol you are welcome. I don't have much to do in the afternoons/evenings. If they are online ones you could send me the link.
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I went to the Scottish Archives and copied a will onto A3 and still couldn't read it - it was in pencil and an absolute nightmare. I gave up. Thankfully it wasn't really needed.
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Perhaps it depends what mood I am in I just opened that link again and I can read some of it yesterday I opened it and it just looked like a muddle.
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Maggie, it does get easier. When I started transcribing wills I found it really difficult and now I can cope with most writing.
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The good thing about wills is that there is a lot of common form wording. It's probably easier to read a will than a witness signature, but it is a question of getting your eye in. If I spend too long on Tudor wills, I cannot cope at all with censuses. But dialect words and alternate spellings can be challenging. Even when I made out inioie and neve, it took me some time to recognise enjoy and nephew.
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My GG-grandfather George Inman divided his estate between his wife and four of his five children, then:
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He stole some meat (although he worked as a butcher), with the excuse that he was starving. But a police sergeant told the court that Arthur's father (who was not rich, but certainly not badly off) told him that his son was "the very worst lad he knew of. He had been at sea on board a fishing smack but had absconded, and they would not take him back on any consideration." |
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That's an excellent story!
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