That was a quick response. The rest of the context suggests he was talking about currency. The English bequests are in pound sterling. And I think this may be a another currency in the same format like Pounds Shillings and Pence. Googling did show that there were many currencies in Europe with the same structure before they all became metric. It's quite a difficult secretary hand so others may not agree with my transcription. Christopher Roy wrote: > Good Morning - > > Sounds like gold or silver to me - [Fourteen thousand and twenty eight > o??nces] ounces? > > I think this may be TROY weight used for these minerals, but 'tazi' doesn't > make sense. > > Grains are used in this measure and that of Apothecaries. > > > Kind Regards > Roy LD Cox > Family Historian > Member of SA&NHS Member No. 1066 (And all That!) Web Site: > www.coxresearcher.com/index.htm I also use www.archivecdbooks.com and > www.localhistory.co.uk/ambra for my research > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Christopher M > Richards > Sent: Friday, October 27, 2006 11:34 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [OEL] 1861 will problems > > This is the will of Benjamin Ingham, made in Palermo in 1861 and proved > there but then proved again in London in 1871. This is from the London copy. > The extract reads: > > Article 6 > > I give and bequeath to Don Frederico Ascenso e Spadafora Duke of Santa > Rosalia another son of my said Wife by her first husband and to the said Don > Gar??olo and Don Domenico Ascenso e Spadafora the sun of Fourteen thousand > and twenty eight o??nces ten tazi and ten grains (?) in the proportion > between them as hereinafter stated and with right of ------ > ------ between them in case that any one cannot or will not accept the > present legacy and with the positive prohibition of not being susceptible of > ?????? not assignment nor even of being ?????ed. to wit ??? first ??? Duke > of Santa Rosalia the sum of four thousand /Ounces/ in usufruct only to be > enjoyed for the whole term of his natural life the Ownership in reversion I > give and bequeath to his daughter Donna Francesca Ascenso Duchess of ______ > wife of Don > > The extract is posted at: > http://www.cmr1chards.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/transcription.htm > > My main question is what the currency is? By 1861 The Bourbon Kingdom of > the Two Sicilies had been defeated by Garibaldi but the will states that it > was the will of Benjamin Ingham resident of Palermo in the Kingdom of the > two Sicilies so he is probably still using the curency of the that Kingdom. > Google hasn't helped so far with this. > > Christopher Richards > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.408 / Virus Database: 268.13.16/504 - Release Date: 27/10/2006 > > >