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Old 19-10-20, 10:35
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Oh, Pinefamily, Luppitt! I know it well as I grew up in Honiton. My parents were veterinary surgeons so we knew all the villages and farms really well.
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Old 19-10-20, 12:34
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Oh, Pinefamily, Luppitt! I know it well as I grew up in Honiton. My parents were veterinary surgeons so we knew all the villages and farms really well.
Double connection there. My Pine's came from Honiton; my 4x great grandfather had the Angel Inn there. And his son, my 3x great grandfather, married Elizabeth Youatt, sister of William Youatt the vet. Youatt was author of many veterinary textbooks that your parents may have owned.
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Old 19-10-20, 13:25
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I remember the Angel Hotel very well.

Here is a photo:

https://www.photos-clive.co.uk/photo_10718177.html

It's now a Costa coffee bar.

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/5485495
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Old 20-10-20, 08:03
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Apparently it was a wine shop before that. My cousin visited Honiton on a trip to the UK, and walked into the shop. He explained to the owner how our ancestor had once owned it, to which the owner replied, "Well you can't have it back!"
Back on topic, wills are also very handy with unusual names, both first and last.
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Old 20-10-20, 10:22
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I downloaded as many wills as I could find from TNA while they are free. So many of mine did not leave wills, but the ones who did have given me their daughters married names, grandchildren and all sorts of other relatives as well as an interesting array of property (real and personal) to be distributed.

If only my Brighton Sussex ancestors had left wills, I could get that part of the family sorted out properly.
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Old 21-10-20, 02:00
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Transcribing does get easier with practice, Toni. I struggled at first but once you get used to the writing and the stock phrases used some wills can be transcribed quite quickly.
I'm getting there slowly. It's the bits that aren't stock phrases that get me lol

I know I just need more consistent effort, which I don't have time for yet.
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Old 21-10-20, 11:42
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Sod's Law says that the will you REALLY want to read is mutilated or poorly reproduced. I'm attempted to transcribe a will. Usually the wills are listed chronologically, so you can compare wordings, but this one is filed alphabetically, so I can't even work out what the common form says.
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Old 22-10-20, 11:00
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A great idea. I love wills and have a lot of them, but I just cannot read the PCC ones. I have a couple from Lancs Wills and they seem a lot easier.

There used to be a website with a lot of transcribed wills, but I can no longer find it.
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Old 22-10-20, 11:05
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A great idea. I love wills and have a lot of them, but I just cannot read the PCC ones. I have a couple from Lancs Wills and they seem a lot easier.

There used to be a website with a lot of transcribed wills, but I can no longer find it.
The man who ran it became ill. Another transcriber set up a different site but it didn't really take off.

If you google you can find lots of transcribed wills.

Oxfordshire FHS have a free website with many transcriptions.
Sussex will transcriptions are online.
Cornwall OPC has over 6,600 will transcriptions.

There will be many other websites with similar resources.
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Old 22-10-20, 11:40
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Norfolk 1800-1857 is here:

http://www.norfolksources.norfolk.gov.uk/DserveNS/


Not complete, but most of the wills are here - free to view. The complete index is on NROCAT
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