Help with a few words in this PCC will - Genealogists' Forum

Merry · #1 05-03-17, 08:11

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I'm transcribing the will of Richard Pickard which begins on the lower part of the right-hand page. I have a couple of missing works on this first page....

Line 10 begins "Executrix hereafter named And for that temporal ........ wherewith it" what's the missing word?

Line 12 "I give and bequeath to my nephew John ???" any ideas for his surname?

Jill · #2 05-03-17, 08:37

I think the first word is Estate [with heavy calligraphic embellishment]

Merry · #3 05-03-17, 08:42

Thank you Jill. That makes complete sense!

Asa · #4 05-03-17, 08:49

Is the nephew called John Kempp?

Merry · #5 05-03-17, 09:00

Asa, That seems very possible. Most of the people mentioned mean nothing to me as yet! I will pencil in Kempp

Thanks.

On to the next page where I have just reached the half way point and am going to have a break now. I have just one line where I'm stuck.... Line 10 begins "may receive....." I can read the odd word along this line but it's not making sense. It's about the poor of the parish receiving loaves and I think this part is to do with the conditions under which they might or might not be fed. The following line I'm OK with regarding disability etc.

kiterunner · #6 05-03-17, 09:02

There is a clearer example of his name on the next page, 13 lines from the bottom, but I'm still not sure what it is. Looks to begin with Gr though.

kiterunner · #7 05-03-17, 09:05

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Originally Posted by Merry

On to the next page where I have just reached the half way point and am going to have a break now. I have just one line where I'm stuck.... Line 10 begins "may receive....." I can read the odd word along this line but it's not making sense. It's about the poor of the parish receiving loaves and I think this part is to do with the conditions under which they might or might not be fed. The following line I'm OK with regarding disability etc.

"may receive a Loafe and none else unless they be such as use to come and are"

kiterunner · #8 05-03-17, 09:07

Back to the nephew, also see the seventh line from the bottom of that second page, Richard, who also has the same surname, though I still don't know what it is.

kiterunner · #9 05-03-17, 09:08

Oh, could it be Greenupp? There is a surname Greenough of which it could be a variant?

kiterunner · #10 05-03-17, 09:10

Actually, looking at ancestry, Greenup seems to be a surname in its own right.