I went to Shire Hall in Cambridge to do research and the two

Posted on: July 18, 2019 at 19:06:18 CT

ladies there were so kind and wonderful. They took an interest and were helping me. One of them explained that much of English History was recorded in the Manorial Records. The old English Manors actually had their own courts and everything was recorded...in Latin. But great news! The Manorial Records that contained my great-X-15 grandmother's Will had been transcribed into English in 1603 and it in the basement, so she sent her assistant to the basement to retrieve it. When she returned she handed it to me...The original book written by hand in 1603. I was obviously stunned and they asked me what was wrong so I replied,

"This book is older than my Country, America. Am I allowed to hold it and touch it?"

"Oh, don't worry, there's an index in the front that will help you flip through it."

The only problem with that was it was in Old English where the letter s looks like an f and they didn't use the letter i, they instead used y's and so on. But the ladies helped me interpret it line by line.

Turns out this grandmother was the cousin of Henry VIII's last wife, Catherine Parr, whom he didn't get around to beheading.



Edited by DoltfromSTL at 19:08:31 on 07/18/19