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Title: Is it Jesse? Jefse? Jefre?
Post by: Bilham on Thursday 27 November 25 17:55 GMT (UK)

I have entries in the Bishops Transcripts for Thorne that I can read clearly but still can't read. One concerns a gentleman's death and the other is the death of his widow Fanny. But what is his name? Ancestry insists it is Jesse but that seems extremely unlikely as this was in the early 1800s.

Many thanks in advance

Title: Re: Is it Jesse? Jefse? Jefre?
Post by: GrahamSimons on Thursday 27 November 25 17:59 GMT (UK)

Jesse is a great Biblical name - father of King David. And the writing here is ever so clear, I believe.

Title: Re: Is it Jesse? Jefse? Jefre?
Post by: Bilham on Thursday 27 November 25 18:02 GMT (UK)

Thanks Graham. So the "f" is the old fasioned "S", but why is the second "s" an "s" I can recognise? Was this a convention of the time if there is a double "S"?

Bilham

Title: Re: Is it Jesse? Jefse? Jefre?
Post by: osprey on Thursday 27 November 25 18:07 GMT (UK)

not an f, but a long s

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

https://www.regencyhistory.net/blog/the-long-s

Title: Re: Is it Jesse? Jefse? Jefre?
Post by: Bilham on Thursday 27 November 25 18:11 GMT (UK)

Brilliant! Thank you.