Can anyone help with this entry please?

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The Fearless One. Rest in Peace.
I'm a bit stumped on this marriage of Richard Algor to Margaret.

1) The first query is the word after the surname Algor.

2) What do you make of the Bride's surname, I have seen what Free Reg and Ancestry's Essex Parrish Register Index make of it and I don't agree fully with either.

I read: m Richard Algor something married the y(ear?) 1589 Margaret something 26 January.


Marriage 1589 Algor, Richard & Margaret Bontton, Gt Easton.jpg
 
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Got me Derek! 1500’s English is a bummer to translate. Some of it can be Latin. I have one from 1500 that looks like shorthand and another from 1515 that took my daughter and I hours to decipher!
 
I wonder if it might be Margaret Lonsson. The word below is Licensed, I know it's in the printed form but it was the nearest I could get to show what I mean.

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This is a tough one....but I saw the following and then read AM's remarks.....

I have a funny feeling that it is a burial registration........see the M. beside the marriage of Margaret and Richard......above that it appears to be half of a B and the word "buried" is the first word on line 2. There is a funny looking B beside the 2nd Margaret entry.

The date is February, so a month after the marriage above.......BUT could it be Richard's mother?? I just can't crack the word after Margaret Algor, the "????" of Richard. Looks like a definite double Ess near the end, but maybe Mosse, of Rosse.

Heck I am losing it, cuz this is a doozie!! With my luck it is partly Latin and I never studied it.
 
Archie's Mum said:
That could be 26 February 1589 or even buried 26 Feb 1589. Did Margaret die one month later? Sorry. All these questions.
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Yes, she was buried a month later, on the 26th of February at Great Easton, I don't have problem with the burial it's just the marriage entry giving slight problems.

In the burial entries for Margaret both Free Reg and the EPRI state she is the wife of Richard Algor.
 
Yes I get it now, wife of Richard Algor, no capital letters though.
As to the word after Algor on the marriage, I have no idea.
If the word after Margaret Algor is wife then the word after Richard Algor on the marriage starts with a ‘w’ but it doesn’t look like Widow(er) Is it ‘was’ married.?
It seems to be the same word as the one before ‘buried’ (was buried)
 
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For the 3rd burial entry (for Margaret), the words before buried, are likely "wife of Richard Algor aforesaid was buried"......but I will be darned if I can get the word on the marriage entry. Could it be his occupation??

The language for Wills and that sort of documentation oddly enough didn't change from way back then till about 1970. I used to type them out with all the "aforesaids, etc.". Good luck, Derek.
 
My Effort:
I think that the 2 names were written one under the other:

Richard Algor
Margaret Bonllon (?)
then combined with one of those squiggly things like a bracket (no idea what it's called & there's no computer key for it)*
so that the sentence carries on:
were married the 26 of January
then another squiggly bracket:
1589

Jane

* Yes there is! }
 
Kernowmaid has it exactly - as for Margaret's surname, I can't decide between Bontton or Bonllon as the writer has very similar t's and l's, especially when written together. Is it worth checking the register to see if anything similar is recorded elepsewhere?
 
I was going to say the same as Jane, Sue and Steve about the } and 'were', but I see the surname is still in doubt.

I think it's Boulton - if you look at 'January' and 'February' (in the next entry) you'll see that this writer's 'u' is very like an 'n'.
 
arthurk said:
I think it's Boulton - if you look at 'January' and 'February' (in the next entry) you'll see that this writer's 'u' is very like an 'n'.
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I agree!
"Blown up" there is a "cross mark" on the second upright only, so - ..LT..
And yes, the writer's "u" is like an "n"

Jane
(getting cocky now ... and yes, Pride Comes Before A Fall)
 
I was going for Bontton but reading these later posts I'll look again especially u versus n, I did find quite a lot of people named Boulton and of course Bolton.

I did come across a Susanna Bolton baptised at Little Bardfield 15 Oct 1550 father Vincenti, I'll search again using what might be considered ridiculous variants of the name and see what comes up, can't remember if I did a search on just Margaret and no surname, done so much searching lately it's starting to blur. :D

Thanks for the idea.

PS didn't find any Bontton people in an Essex search yesterday, at lest not in an appropriate time frame.
 
However, check the ‘t’ on Margaret. The stroke is only on one side. So it’s possible that it’s a double ‘t’. Bontton, Boutton.
 
Still can't find her no matter what variant I try, I'll take a break and see if I have a Light Bulb moment. :rolleyes: :D
 
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