More handwriting help please.

Sis

Sis

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Is there any chance that someone is able to tell me what the handwritten word before the word aged is please. The burial was in 1804 even though it has 17___ it's hand written in on another part of the page. The other burials that I can read have the Registered date the same as the burial date and the E Bradley is quite clear on others too. It's just that word after his name which is not very clear. FMP have transcribed it as Infant, but I'm not convinced.

What I can read is:
James Rixson ??????? aged___ of this parish _______was buried ??????? 17__
Registered Oct 26th by me E Bradley
 
(Hint: it's in Swanscombe, register image available at CityArk - ref P362/1/30 ;))

At first I was a bit dubious about 'Infant', but if you look at the entry above it says quite clearly 'an infant'. This one has a similar 'an', then a gap, and what could well be 'inf-' before it fades away.
 
I think your right @arthurk, thank you. What was throwing me was the line going down at the end of the word, if that makes sense. I was making something out of nothing really.:oops:

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there is another Rixson.....Thomas James Rixson bap same day 9th Oct 1804 died 20 May 1804 perhaps that burial may be clearer might say same word?
 
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Thank you Sandie I'll take a look. It's been a long time since I looked at this family.
 
Sandiep said:
there is another Rixson.....Thomas James Rixson bap same day 9th Oct 1804 died 20 May 1804 perhaps that burial may be clearer might say same word?
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Can you tell me where he was baptised and died please as I can't find him in the Swanscombe parish registers. Thanks.

OK, found him in an Ancestry Tree and a transcription of his baptism on Ancestry. Can't for the life of me find him in the parish register!
 
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Sis said:
Did you know that the Cityark website has moved and no longer called that @arthurk. It's now at:
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http://medway.adlibhosting.com/
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Er, maybe o_O. It's not a site I use regularly, so I just put something like CityArk Medway in a search engine and it gave me the site you mentioned.

Then I was so keen to get on with the search that I didn't notice it had a different name. :angel:
 
Glad you found it on Ancestry I should have said that was where I found Thomas
Like you couldn't find him on Swanscombe registers, after I had found how to find them in Cityark!! it wasn't very clear to me and registers are a bit faded in parts still we are lucky to have them I guess.
 
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