I am currently transcribing handwritten entries from 1846. I have managed the "L that looks like an S" and similar oddities but one thing has me stumped. A few districts (e.g. Ashton, Hereford) have a single character following the district name that looks like something between an S and an &. Does anyone know what that character is? I notice that in the typed lists available from commercial vendors like Genealogy.com, this is translated as &c but that may simply be the typist's code for "I don't know what this character is." I'd really like to type what I see, but my choices seem to be either [S&] or _ . If anyone knows what the convention was back then for extending the names of some districts, and thus what I should be entering, please let me know. Kate McCain