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Wiltshire / Re: old word from early 1700s - a "Yeating Stone" (correction: yoating stone)
« on: Friday 07 June 24 09:26 BST (UK)  »
Fantastic!  Almost as good as a sketch.  Thank you Capetown.

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Wiltshire / Re: old word from early 1700s - a "Yeating Stone"
« on: Saturday 01 June 24 06:33 BST (UK)  »
Thank you all, I'm now better informed than at the start!
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Wiltshire / Re: old word from early 1700s - a "Yeating Stone"
« on: Friday 31 May 24 09:41 BST (UK)  »
Thank you Watson.  No, it's clearly 'stone', not stove. 

Thanks too AlanBoyd. After reading your suggestion I looked again at the will and the word might be 'yoating' rather than 'yeating' (i.e. an 'o', not 'e') so would fit the definition given.  I also checked Marlborough probate inventories, 1591-1775, which you referenced, and found the stones listed in a number of inventories.  (A pity there's no sketch or picture.)

Thanks again
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Wiltshire / old word from early 1700s - a "Yeating Stone"
« on: Friday 31 May 24 06:25 BST (UK)  »
I am interested to learn if others know what a yeating stone was used for, or perhaps what it may have looked like.

I have a will, written in 1729, (in Wiltshire) which includes the following bequest; "... the yeating stone in the malting floor"

Is it possible that 'yeating' may have been the spelling used for 'heating'?  A book about Wiltshire Words says, "Many words beginning with H, G, or a vowel, are usually sounded with Y prefixed"

Thank you. I look forward to any suggestions   

PS I hope this is best category for my query

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Australia / Re: which High School for boys from Carramar
« on: Monday 15 April 24 01:24 BST (UK)  »
Thanks for the suggestions maddys52. (It seems most 'high schools' only opened in mid 50s, or later and before that many were called something else. The puzzle is what name and / or location!)

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Australia / which High School for boys from Carramar
« on: Sunday 14 April 24 10:24 BST (UK)  »
I am hoping someone with knowledge of the Carramar area (SW Sydney) is able to assist.  I would like to know the names of possible high schools that a teenage boy from Carramar was likely to have attended during years 1950 to 1956.

I guess Liverpool is one possibility but wonder if there were others that I should search.

Thank you for any suggestions

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: what is this word? COMPLETED, with thanks
« on: Monday 01 January 24 06:38 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you Watson & Raybistre.  It's part of a bequest to a young granddaughter in early 1600s so sawcer (saucer) makes sense.  I understand that back then a saucer was not like today but a dish or shallow bowl for eating food from.

Thanks again

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / what is this word?
« on: Sunday 31 December 23 06:29 GMT (UK)  »
I'd very much appreciate any suggestions as to the spelling of this word - I am not sure of the different letters that make up the word.

Thanks

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Wiltshire / Re: Who is a 'kinsman' ('kinswoman')
« on: Sunday 10 December 23 03:01 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you all for your suggestions.

Looking further into the the family it seems the relationship may have been second cousin and the children of that cousin.

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