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Gloucestershire Lookup Requests / Re: Westerleigh Marriage lookup please
« on: Tuesday 05 December 17 16:18 GMT (UK)  »
I made notes from the Westerleigh BTs many years ago and the information I recorded then was that Amos Chapel and Mary Rowland had their banns published on 15 May 1785 and the marriage took place there on 19 September.  I did not note that either of them came from another parish which I would have done if that had been shown on the record.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Handwriting help please
« on: Tuesday 16 August 16 15:26 BST (UK)  »
'the same day' usually just means that the person was buried the same day as the previous entry not that they both died and were buried on the same day.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Help please - what is father's forename?
« on: Monday 28 March 16 12:14 BST (UK)  »
Rechard Blacburne drapar (draper)

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Strange name and a few other bits
« on: Thursday 16 April 15 21:51 BST (UK)  »
Michael Knole - say weaver - say being a fine cloth used for bedding etc

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Somerset Lookup Requests / Re: Philip and Sophia Parker of Chew Magna - 1841 Census
« on: Friday 05 July 13 14:30 BST (UK)  »
Sorry, previous post forgot to add that his effects for probate came into the category of 'Under £800'

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Somerset Lookup Requests / Re: Philip and Sophia Parker of Chew Magna - 1841 Census
« on: Friday 05 July 13 14:29 BST (UK)  »
The National Probate Calendar has the following entry for Philip Parker:

Letters of administration (with the will annexed) for the estate of Philip Parker late of Chew Magna, deceased, gentleman who died on 6 March 1859 at Chew Magna granted at Wells to Sophia Harford Adlam (wife of William Adlam of Chew Magna, esquire) the only child of the deceased.

You can apply for a copy of the documents quoting the significant information from the calendar as identification.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: a couple of names in a 1698 will please
« on: Friday 29 March 13 13:15 GMT (UK)  »
Not Verity but Dority (Dorothy).  The first letter is a D and the second an O

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Please help with these old letters
« on: Friday 21 September 12 15:46 BST (UK)  »
It's 200 li which means £200.  'li' is the abbreviation for libri = latin for pound

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Somerset / Re: Lookups for the names Sealey, & Brimble of Lympsham
« on: Friday 27 April 12 14:42 BST (UK)  »
Christian was registered as Christiana for birth 1876 and death 1879 aged 2.
Haven't found a Maria but Alice was Alice Maria, Emily was Emily Jane and Ernest was Ernest James.

All the children went to work at an early age as you would expect which accounts for some of them being missing from the family groups:
Henry was an apprentice shoemaker in 1871 but had become a grocer by 1891
Walter was a servant to farmer Edwin Dibble when aged 13
Alice was also a servant at a similar age in 1881 in East Brent and was later a cook in Weston-super-Mare
Emily Jane was a servant in 1891 in Weston before marrying Henry Passmore

In 1901 Ernest and his mother were living with the Passmores in Weston

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