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    1. [SOG-UK] Deciphering a name in a parish register ca. 1590
    2. Walt O'Dowd

    3. I have been taking advantage of the New Family Search website to look up some parish records concerning ancestors in the Great Migration of the early seventeenth century, and have come across one forename that has me stumped. There are two records for the person concerned (a daughter of Christopher Marche and Francys his wife of Runham in Norfolk); a baptism and a burial. My best stab at the name is Vasthie (Book of Esther?). The name does not occur elsewhere in the family as far as I can see and she is the fifth child of eight, the rest of which are pretty standard: Thomas, Elizabeth, Anne, William, Mary, Sara, and Christopher. The first occurance is in a 1582 baptism record: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11577-18420-89?cc=1416598&wc=MMVP-4SN:293861336 The second occurance is in a 1592 burial record: https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.3.1/TH-267-11577-19344-70?cc=1416598&wc=MMVP-4SN:293861336 Any thoughts are welcomed. Walt O'Dowd

    04/11/2012 12:47:22
    1. Re: [SOG-UK] Deciphering a name in a parish register ca. 1590
    2. MILLARD A.R.

    3. > From: Walt O'Dowd > Sent: 11 April 2012 18:47 > > I have been taking advantage of the New Family Search website to look up > some parish records concerning ancestors in the Great Migration of the > early seventeenth century, and have come across one forename that has me > stumped. There are two records for the person concerned (a daughter of > Christopher Marche and Francys his wife of Runham in Norfolk); a baptism > and a burial. My best stab at the name is Vasthie (Book of Esther?). These are fairly clear secretary hand. The first reads Vastha, the second Vasthie. The name now rendered Vashti from the book of Esther is Vasthi or Uasthi in 16th century translations of the Bible, for example in the Bishop's Bible of 1569 Esther 1:9 is "And the queene Uasthi made a feast also for the women in the palace of Ahasuerus." Best wishes Andrew -- Andrew Millard - [email protected] Bodimeade genealogy:   http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/Bodimeade/ My family history:     http://www.dur.ac.uk/a.r.millard/genealogy/ GenUKI Middx + London: http://homepages.gold.ac.uk/genuki/MDX/ + ../LND/

    04/11/2012 03:31:54