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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: idr6 on Tuesday 13 March 18 08:05 GMT (UK)
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Help with the attached 1699 entry would be most welcome. It's from 1699. There's a baptism at St Nicolas', Nuneaton in Warwickshire. It realtes to Ann, daughter of William Petty on 10 April. No mother named, but that's not unusual in the register at this time. But there is both an illegible word in the entry, where 'baptised' (or a contraction thereof) should appear. The word looks very wrong and unlike other 'baptised' terms in the register.
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Hallo
Would it be possible to post a larger snippet from the same page so we can compare the letter formation in other words?
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As requested.
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Tricky.
The only suggestion I can come up with is papt - which would mean the clerk had a 'senior moment' and wrote a p instead of a b at the beginning of the word!
Philip
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Tricky.
The only suggestion I can come up with is papt - which would mean the clerk had a 'senior moment' and wrote a p instead of a b at the beginning of the word!
Philip
I was thinking along those lines myself! :)
The last 3 letters definitely look the same - it is just the first one which is weird...
Maybe he sneezed. ;)
Karen
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That thought had occurred to me too; it's definitely an initial 'p'. I was unsure whether there might have been a different term if, for example, the baby has been baptised at home. I had been toying with something like a contracted version of 'presented'.
Do you have any ideas on the word added as an afterthought between the first two lines (above 'William')?
Thank you anyway.