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Title/Name Rachel Herbert
LL reference WCCDEP358050218
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The source is transcribed "Rachel Herbert aged abt. 30 Years upon Oath saith she never who married". On checking the manuscript, I would say that "who" should be transcribed as "was". A descender from the line above comes down to the letter "a", and was therefore read as an ascender of "h". Once one ignores the descender, "was" seems a likely reading, and makes more sense.

CreatedThursday 25 November, 2010 16:00:50 GMT
LastModifTuesday 16 August, 2011 12:13:00 BST