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Offline lizdb

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Re: struggling reading a will
« Reply #9 on: Friday 30 August 13 16:38 BST (UK) »
I have seen a LOT worse!
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Re: struggling reading a will
« Reply #10 on: Friday 30 August 13 16:40 BST (UK) »
I have seen a LOT worse!

I'll second that!

Emily, it wold be worth spending the time to go through the original with liz's transcription just for the sake of doing some practice. The more you do this the easier it will become.
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Re: struggling reading a will
« Reply #11 on: Friday 30 August 13 16:41 BST (UK) »
Yes the other one i have is clear at first but on one page is really bad but it is 2 pages long and have no idea how to upload it as i wont let me attach the file

But thank you so much it is a great help i have a headache from looking at it all afternoon

Emily

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Re: struggling reading a will
« Reply #12 on: Friday 30 August 13 16:43 BST (UK) »
thanks Jen

i think i will do that not but my grandfather must of spent all his inheritance as no one else has wills

Thanks

Emily


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Re: struggling reading a will
« Reply #13 on: Friday 30 August 13 17:21 BST (UK) »

I think it's decease, not demise  :-\

Yes, you are right.
Becomes clearer when I got to the word decease later on in tbe script!
Edmonds/Edmunds - mainly Sussex
DeBoo - London
Green - Suffolk
Parker - Sussex
Kemp - Essex
Farrington - Essex
Boniface - West Sussex

census information is Crown Copyright from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk