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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1567 Plea rolls translation
« on: Tuesday 29 July 25 06:05 BST (UK)  »
Anthony Smyth of Tollerton, husbandman, and Elizabeth Fountans, of Tolthorpe, widow, to answer Robert Kytchynman for trespass: breach of his close and house at Tollerton and taking hay (herbam) worth 10 pounds and trampling and consuming other hay worth 100 shillings.

Anthony claims the land is his, called Holsondons Land. Robert claims the land is his, called Kytchyngmans Fermhold. The jury finds in favour of Robert and awards damages and costs.

The symbol at the bottom is an elaborate Roman numeral. This is roll No. 620.


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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1578 Plea Rolls Translation
« on: Monday 28 July 25 18:34 BST (UK)  »
Most of the cases are like that: increasing threats to find the person and make them respond. Transportation was slow: it would take five or six days for the writ to be delivered from Westminster to York, and another two or three to deliver it to the farthest corners of Yorkshire. Sometimes I think defendants were using delaying tactics: they could make themselves scarce, delay for a year, then repay the debt and the case is closed.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: 1578 Plea Rolls Translation
« on: Monday 28 July 25 15:47 BST (UK)  »
Here is a somewhat abbreviated translation:

Yorks. Valentine Kytchynman, of Carleton Husthwayte, yeoman, by his attorney, versus Thomas Sicklemore, of Slateburne, clerk, Master of Arts, rector of Slateburn, Yorks, for a debt of eight pounds that he owes. Thomas didn't come, the sheriff was ordered to arrest him, says he can't be found. He was ordered to bring him at the octave of the Purification of St Mary but didn't come and the sheriff is ordered to bring him the fifteenth day of Easter.

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iiis iiiid, or three shillings four pence. This was a fairly standard amount, 40 pence or half a mark.

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Down / Re: Seeking info: McKee
« on: Monday 21 July 25 11:44 BST (UK)  »
Thank you!

Northern Ireland is new territory for me. O brave new world!

There were quite many McKees in that area, in or within a few miles of Kilcronaghan:
1740 Protestant Householders
 - Henry McKee, Kilcronaghan
 - James McKee, Magherafelt
 - John McKee, Magherafelt
 - William McKee, Maghera

 1766 Religious Census
- John McKee, Dersertmartin
- John McKee, Desertmartin
- Matthew McKee, Desertmartin

Emigrants from Derry, 1834-5
- Henry George McKee, from Tullyroan, Kilcronaghan, to Philadelphia. Independent.
- William Mckee, from Granny, Kilcronaghan, to Philadelphia. Presbyterian.

Granny sounds like a nice, friendly place.

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Down / Re: Seeking info: McKee
« on: Sunday 20 July 25 08:15 BST (UK)  »
Thank you!

I haven't done any research in Ireland and I didn't know where to start.

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Hertfordshire / Re: George Edridge
« on: Tuesday 15 July 25 13:12 BST (UK)  »
I looked at the PCC wills available from TNA. They were all named John, William and Thomas, but I think I have pieced them together back a few more generations. The father of George (PCC 1723):

Will of Thomas Edridge, Draper of Layston, Hertfordshire, 1665 (PCC)
Daughter Margaret (1638), Elizabeth, Susan (1654)
Sons John (1643), William, George (1657), Thomas (1640)
Wife Elizabeth and son Thomas executors
Witnesses William Edridge, Henry Edridge

Thomas' father:
Will of William Edridge, Tanner of Buntingford, Hertfordshire, 1614
Sons William (eldest), Henry (1605), Thomas (1613)
Daughters Margaret (1601), Joan, Elizabeth (1609), Susan (1611)
Wife Margaret executrix
Overseers brothers John Edridge, Thomas Edridge, George Ayler

William's father:
John Etheridge, of Buntingford, glover, 1577
Wife Isabel
Sons John, Thomas, William
Daughters Agnes, Joan, Margaret
https://archive.org/details/hertsgenealogis02briggoog/page/n127/mode/2up?view=theater

And John's father:
Will of William Ederiche of Buntingford, Hertfordshire, 1549
Wife Joan
(In common pleas as William Edriche, of Buntingford, glover, in 1536 and 37)

William's father could be the William Edryche of Buntingford, miller, in Common Pleas in 1502.

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Hertfordshire / Re: George Edridge
« on: Tuesday 15 July 25 06:50 BST (UK)  »
This must be the baptism of the older George Edridge (PCC 1723), christening 28 May 1657 in Layston, Herts, son of Thomas and Elizabeth.
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NR4T-NW5?lang=en

George is also mentioned in the will of Thomas Edridge, draper (1665).

And a few more generations back, from London Marriage Licences:
Etheridge, John (Etteridge), of Buntingford, parish of Layston, Herts, glover, and Ellen Hagger, of same, spinster, daughter of — Hagger, late of Chishull Magna, Essex, "agricola," deceased, gen. lic, 20 Feb. 1586/7.


https://archive.org/details/londonmarriageli00fost_0/page/228/mode/2up?view=theater

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Hertfordshire / Re: George Edridge
« on: Monday 14 July 25 19:11 BST (UK)  »
If I am following CD correctly, he is saying (in brief):

George Edridge, born about 1660, died 1723 (PCC will), married Elizabeth Robins.

Thomas Edridge, son of above, born about 1685, married Kathleen. Their son was George (your guy), born 1707/8.

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