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Reading parish records
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Daphne | Report | 1 Sep 2005 15:44 |
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As some of you know I am doing some transcribing. Getting on well now with the Latin ,thanks to the help of the web sites given.Know about the FF etc.Oh but some of the writting.Still it is a wonder they could write at all in 1560. I am real stuck with a letter which looks like a O with a line though.top to bottom and side to side. - odlinge.is one of the surnames .It is not a O,G,or a C.Any one got any idea,s please.I have worked out his fancy W,N,E,J ,S,and D is back to front,but realy stuck with this one. Thank you Daphne |
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Phoenix | Report | 1 Sep 2005 15:54 |
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Daphne That sounds like a C. Are you sure he isn't using two forms of the same letter? (Having Codlings in my family) |
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Phoenix | Report | 1 Sep 2005 15:58 |
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NB If it's parish registers that you are looking at, then this should be a copy, not the original, transcribed circa 1598. Sometimes the registers actually state this. |
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Daphne | Report | 1 Sep 2005 16:22 |
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It is a film I am transcribing .It is a film of parish records from 1555 .It is the books of the parish.or two villiages . I did wonder if it was a C,but is differnt from his other C.Will look at where he used it before. Thank you Daphne |
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Christine in Herts | Report | 1 Sep 2005 16:23 |
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It does sound as if it could be a C or a G. Have you looked at the sample Wills on Documents Online? http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/documentsonline/wills-sample.asp The upper-case G is pretty circular, with an ornamental vertical line, plus the crossing stroke which converts it from C to G. On the other hand CODLING is a more common surname than GODLING (which does appear to exist). Christine |
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Daphne | Report | 1 Sep 2005 17:58 |
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Thank you so much for the site.It had all about reading old writting[palaeography].I have printed up 10 alphabets.. And it is a C.He is saying christen and not baptised.That is what floored me.I can see my H ,T R etc. Thank you !!!!! Daphne |
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