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Subject: Re: [OEL] lawful wives
Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2003 22:41:39 +0100
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Thanks Eve,

Yes I looked again at the word after 'issue' and it is 'Male' as
you suggest. The M had a Q-like flourish at the start which
had thrown me. Thank you very much.

With regard to 'lawful' wives - I have had another look at it and
it still looks very much like 'lawful' to me . . . . you can see it at

http://www.windeatt.f2s.com/windeatt/wills/whatsit.htm

This gent, by the way, is the father of the child who was
"deserted by the Dart" (the Latin I was asking about earlier).
He married Apollonia (the lawful wife above) three months
before the said baby was born. We are trying to find the
original baptismal entry but there doesn't seem to be any
record at the parish we are told she was baptised at . . . . so
still hunting . . .

On 30 May 2003, at 23:12, Eve McLaughlin wrote:
> >
> >I have recently come across the expression "my dear and
> >lawful wife". Is this a common expression? Or does it also
> >imply something?
> I would rather expect 'dear and loving wife' as the common expression
> >
> or 'loveing'
> if it really says dear and lawful, maybe someone has implied to the
> contrary.
> >And could you tell me what the word after 'issue' is likely to be
> >in the following phrase:
> >
> >dying without Issue ? of his body
> >
> 1. lawful 2, surviving 2 male
> of which 1 is by far the most common
> >it looks like something beginning with Q?
> maybe a rather sprawly L
>
> --
> Eve McLaughlin
>
> Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
> Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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