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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Finmere Parish Register
« on: Friday 08 November 24 07:03 GMT (UK)  »
Thanks all for your help. The Finmere register certainly is quirky. Obviously transcribed from earlier material the cleric is frequently annotating with non-contemporaneous facts. Latinised place names are littered throughout, together with snippets of biographical details. Unfortunately some words are undecipherable, but once again many thanks for the effort.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Finmere Parish Register
« on: Thursday 07 November 24 08:38 GMT (UK)  »
My apologies. It would have been more helpful if I had attached a copy of the entry showing a little more context. Now attached.

Clearly the entry relates to William Paxton marrying Elizabeth Yates on 14 Jun 1676, which the clerk has recorded before he was instructed to enter the baptism of their first child. The Finmere register is littered with such entries, presumably to ensure there is no question of illegitimacy, possibly because other factors suggest this a transcription.

The vicar is recorded both in Alumni Oxoniensis and the CCeD database as RICHARD Horne, Rector since 1635. He dies in post in 1678. The handwriting is consistent with entries going back to 1593 - and long after his death - so someone is transcribing and gets his name wrong.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Finmere Parish Register
« on: Wednesday 06 November 24 11:08 GMT (UK)  »
Sorry...upload failed

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Finmere Parish Register
« on: Wednesday 06 November 24 08:46 GMT (UK)  »
Entry here of the 1676 marriage of William Paxton to Elizabeth Yates. The clerk - not the rector who was RICHARD Horne - gives some added details - is there a reference to the nearby parish of Fringford?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with 1615 Admon
« on: Tuesday 05 November 24 05:30 GMT (UK)  »
Thank you.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with 1615 Admon
« on: Monday 04 November 24 21:55 GMT (UK)  »
…does the ledger entry make reference to consanguineous to their mother ‘materna’ or am I just hoping…

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with 1615 Admon
« on: Monday 04 November 24 21:33 GMT (UK)  »
The start of the obligation

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help with 1615 Admon
« on: Monday 04 November 24 20:02 GMT (UK)  »
Many thanks for this. I have the main script of the Admon which may have more - will post when I can get file size right!

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Help with 1615 Admon
« on: Monday 04 November 24 15:59 GMT (UK)  »
The script is a little florid, but the Latin beats me! My interest is in the Administrator of the assets passed to the children of William Mason - named here. He John Paxton husbandman of Launton, Oxon. Does the Latin reveal a relationship?

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