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« Reply #9 on: Sunday 06 April 08 10:43 BST (UK) »
So, getting back to the writing  ;D

Do we think it's Assenden Lower or what  ???

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« Reply #10 on: Sunday 06 April 08 11:04 BST (UK) »
Hi.
only me again.
thanks for all yr help.
i don't think the writing says 'lower'.
looking again it says simply assen don..........  the person who wrote it was probably unfamiliar with the place name.

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« Reply #11 on: Sunday 06 April 08 11:19 BST (UK) »
Sorry, Iain

I don't agree. The other d in Oxfordshire is different and there is definitely an r written as superscript at the end.

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« Reply #12 on: Sunday 06 April 08 11:24 BST (UK) »
Are you saying that the first word just says 'Assen' ??  and the whole Assen Low(r) ??


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« Reply #13 on: Sunday 06 April 08 11:42 BST (UK) »
That's what I'm thinking, Iain, not sure about the others. I'd hazard a guess that Assenden was abbreviated to Assen in this instance. The superscript 'r' is very pronounced in the second word.

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« Reply #14 on: Sunday 06 April 08 11:57 BST (UK) »
I see what you mean.
Would thaey have abbreviated on a will ??.
i know it's not helpfull for all my helpers not to have sight of the entire document.
The writer of the will perhaps thought that Assen Don were two words instead of one and that the L is a capital D.
The author's lower case L's are not the same as the possible L in lower although i cannot find an example of an upper case L to compare.
But in general you have all agreed that it is most likely Assendon in one form or another whether it be upper, lower, middle or slightly left of centre and for that i thank you.

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« Reply #15 on: Sunday 06 April 08 12:27 BST (UK) »
Gadget,

I am absolutely stumped!  I have been looking at all the old maps of Oxfordshire, all morning, especially South Oxfordshire which I think it is.

I can find nothing that remotely resembles that word!  I think that it begins with O, if you look and I have blown it up to 250% the O of Oxfordshire has a dot in the middle as well.  That is a deffinate F because the s is so clearly written.  Have you a date for this?  I have some very old maps of the area, it might be a village long gone!

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« Reply #16 on: Sunday 06 April 08 12:30 BST (UK) »
Hi Rabbit  :)

The 'f' is the way they used to write the first 's'

I'm going with Assen(den) Low(e)r


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« Reply #17 on: Sunday 06 April 08 12:36 BST (UK) »
the will is 1818