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ElizabethHerts
08-06-11, 11:05
This might be a futile request, but can anyone make out the last entry on this page:

http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=728256&iid=382856


It might well be the marriage of my ancestors John and Sarah Wood.

It is the last entry on the right-hand page.

ElizabethHerts
08-06-11, 11:10
John Wood of Harspwell and Sarah Cauth? ??? married March ye 9th 1705

Not sure about the date but that's what it looks like.

This is the parish register for Helmswell. Harpswell is a part of it.

kiterunner
08-06-11, 11:47
John Wood of Harpswall and Sarah Cauthorne .... married March the 14th 1705. I suspect the bit I can't read says of Helmswell.

ElizabethHerts
08-06-11, 11:56
Thanks, Kate. I thought the missing bit was "of Hemswell" too.

It's interesting you got a different date to me. I shall have to see if I can find the entry in the Bishop's Transcripts.

Thanks for the surname, I couldn't decipher it.

Merry
08-06-11, 11:59
I think March 9th refers to the previous entry and 14th is right at the very bottom of the page.

ElizabethHerts
08-06-11, 12:09
Thanks, Merry.

This site is brilliant. I have gone back a generation with some certainty and now I'm finding all the siblings baptisms.

ElizabethHerts
08-06-11, 12:18
Oh, I wonder whether Cauthorne could also be Gauthorp?

They had a son, Gauthorp, whose baptism is on page 11. (Dec 10th 1712)
The surname was put as Gauthorp and then crossed out and replaced by Wood.

http://www.lincstothepast.com/Records/RecordDisplayTranscript.aspx?oid=728256&iid=382862

Right-hand page

kiterunner
08-06-11, 12:28
Hmmm, the first letter of her surname on the marriage still looks like a C to me, but the end could be pe rather than ne. So it could say Cauthorpe?

ElizabethHerts
08-06-11, 12:29
The baptismal name could be Cawthorp and not Gawthorp, Kate.
The IGI have it as Gauthorp.

kiterunner
08-06-11, 12:35
The name on the baptism looks like Gawthorp to me but I wonder if it was pronounced the same way!

ElizabethHerts
08-06-11, 12:40
Very possibly. It's obviously a family name, Gawthorp. Also it comes up by googling.

Phoenix
08-06-11, 12:41
A little earlier, but my Crimes switch to Grimes and back again with worrying ease. And in the Tudor period the letters are written very differently, so it's not mistranscription there.