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Thursday, April 7, 2011

It All Looks Okay to Me

This official heard evidence in a 1895 case involving a gentleman who died owning property, left a widow and no children, but no will. He was fond of abbreviations apparently.

9 comments:

  1. Mr. C. Hooker
    Master in ? H Colee

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  2. Mr C Hooker Master in Cly/Cty McColee? Perhaps Cly/Cty is somewhere that only a local would know? It's the same here with us Scots - only a local would recognise the place name :-) Jo

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  3. Mr. C. Hooker
    Master in charge of codes

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  4. William C Hooker
    Master in charge of codes

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  5. Some guesswork with this one!!
    Mr C. Hooker
    Master in Chg ? Co. Ill.

    Maybe all of the middle part (Chg ? - or whatever) is an abreviation for a County in Illinois but I'm not familiar with the geography in that part of the world.

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  6. Wm C Hooker
    Master in Chy H Co Ill
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    W[illia]m C Hooker
    Master in Ch[ancer]y H[ancock] Co[unty] Ill[inois]

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  7. OMG, I seriously need to rethink my Family Search volunteer efforts... I put punctuation marks where they didn't exist; and, committed the cardinal sin of 'filling in' what "I" thought they intended to scribble out.

    Thanks for the much needed lesson, Michael!

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  8. This one was admittedly a little difficult. I'm trying to mix them up to have a little more variety ;-)

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