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Forum: Reading old documents

Hints. tips and advice on reading old documents

  1. Parish Register Foot Note

    This extract is from a parish register dated 1864, but you can see that the first entry is dated "Dec 1840" for a Margaret Lewis. Next to the entry is a mark which I think corresponds to the footnote at the bottom of the page. I think that the foot note reads something like: This person was...

    Started by Megan Roberts‎, 16-05-2013 9:54 AM
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    16-05-2013, 2:14 PM Go to last post
  2. Occupation

    Can anyone decipher the occupation here? The date is 1820.

    Started by Megan Roberts‎, 13-05-2013 2:00 PM
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    13-05-2013, 2:13 PM Go to last post
  3. Can anyone read this please

    This is a parish record dated 1722, and I am interested in the entry about THOMAS FIELDS, which is in the middle of the document: I have got: THOMAS FIELDS BORN IN YE PARISH ****** BEING 22 YEARS OF AGE ******************* TO A POTTER IN BIDIFORD AND AFTER EXAMINATION WAS BAPTISED 11...

    Started by Megan Roberts‎, 02-05-2013 10:09 AM
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