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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: penbex86 on Saturday 13 September 14 15:56 BST (UK)
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Received this in the post today but I'm useless with reading old handwriting and this just looks like scribbles to me surrounded by a few keywords that I can just about read! :(
Would really appreciate the help!!
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BE it known (?) that upon the third day of
July (?) one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
personally appeared before me Peter Thophan(?)
of the parish of Bronely (?) ------ in the diocese
of Hereford and alledged and made oath that he
is a bachelor of the age of Twenty one years
and upwards and that he intends to marry Sarah
Shenton of the parish of and -----------------------
and diocese aforesaid that she is a spinster
of the age of Twenty one years and upwards and
there is no lawfull let( ?) hinderance or impediment
as he knows or believes by reason of consanguinity
affinity or any other cause whatsoever to hinder
the said intended marriage and he prayed a licence
so solemize the said intended marriage in
the parish church of Bronely(?) --------- for
in which said parish the said Peter Thophon
hath had his usual place of abode --------------
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four weeks now last past and ?
Sorry I don’t know the people’s names or the place (names are usually the hardest to decipher!) – but you will know more.
It is a pretty much standard licence application, but hand written – a lot were done on pro forma sheets where the names were just filled in, so a lot easier to read. They usually end with ‘weeks last past.’ so I can’t make out what the last word is.
I have left spelling errors in.
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Impressive, Goldie! I think the name of the place is Broseley.
Regards,
GS
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I think the last word is 'upwards'.
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BE it known (?) that upon the third day of
July (?) one thousand eight hundred and eighteen
personally appeared before me Peter Thophan(?)
of the parish of Bronely (?) ------ in the diocese
of Hereford and alledged and made oath that he
is a bachelor of the age of Twenty one years
and upwards and that he intends to marry Sarah
Shenton of the parish of and -----------------------
and diocese aforesaid that she is a spinster
of the age of Twenty one years and upwards and
there is no lawfull let( ?) hinderance or impediment
as he knows or believes by reason of consanguinity
affinity or any other cause whatsoever to hinder
the said intended marriage and he prayed a licence
so solemize the said intended marriage in
the parish church of Bronely(?) --------- for
in which said parish the said Peter Thophon
hath had his usual place of abode --------------
--------------------------------------------
four weeks now last past and ?
Sorry I don’t know the people’s names or the place (names are usually the hardest to decipher!) – but you will know more.
It is a pretty much standard licence application, but hand written – a lot were done on pro forma sheets where the names were just filled in, so a lot easier to read. They usually end with ‘weeks last past.’ so I can’t make out what the last word is.
I have left spelling errors in.
Thank you Goldie. The names and places were the only bits I could decipher. Haha.
It's pretty standard then? I was hoping it would have more in there about him/her and maybe their family. I was told that marriages by licence often had to include more details.
Wonder why it was done by license...
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Quite often they got a licence so they could get married straight away - within in a couple of days if they could. This meant they didn't have to wait the three weeks to wait for the banns to be read in church. Have you checked the date of marriage with the date of their first child?
Sometimes there is other information with the application - quite often on a different sheet of paper - is this one the only piece you got? Sometimes the fathers names are given especially if the bride was under 21, as he would have to give his consent.
But it is just as likely that this one piece you have will be all that is left of their application for their licence.