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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: philipsearching on Friday 29 August 25 16:46 BST (UK)
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The staining at the top of this will has made it too difficult for me to make out a few key words. Please can anyone help fill in the gaps?
For the first four lines I have:
In the name of God Amen the (eighth?) day of March 1622 I Elizabeth Allen
(???????????) in the countie of (???????) Peterburrowe being sicke
of body but thanks be unto god in good and perfect (memory?) do make & ordaine this my
last will & testament in manner following ffirst (??????) bequeath my soule unto
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The image is too small to maintain a readable resolution when zoomed to a readable size.
Zoom the target part of your image to a readable size and take a snip with the Snipping Tool (or similar).
For what it's worth, it appears the county is Northton and the main word before Peterborrough is a form of diocese. However, with a decent image we can do much better.
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... of Spratton Widdowe ...
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ffirst I give & bequeath my soule ...
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Can't read the date at this resolution. Please follow HD's advice for a better quality image.
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Looking again now on a better screen, I think it's probably The Sixth daie ....
If it were the Eighth, there would be two descenders in the middle for the gh, but there's only one, so probably it's x.
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Thank you so much for your help.
The image I have was e-mailed to me in low resolution and this was the best I could do with it.
So, Elizabeth Lewis was a widow of Spratton in Northamptonshire in the diocese of Peterborough. Sadly, she is not my ancestor, but I will transcribe the rest of the will and send it back to my contact. Ah well, another lead fizzles out!
Regards
Philip