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WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 24 Apr 2018 10:04

I'm reading a will dated 1826 and there are several words that use the 'Welsh' double F , ffarmer and ffuneral being two examples. Is this normal for the time ?

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Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

Kense

Kense Report 24 Apr 2018 10:11

Yes, it was the way of representing capital f.

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+++DetEcTive+++ Report 24 Apr 2018 10:49

If its in the middle or end of a word, it normally represents ss.
One my lines is Hodgkiss, shown as Hodgkifs or Hodgkiff

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WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 24 Apr 2018 10:56

The words appear in the middle of sentences, not usually capitalised ? Definitely not ss Detective but thank you !

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.

Kense

Kense Report 24 Apr 2018 11:05

Often nouns were capitalised in the middle of sentences (similar to modern German).

ArgyllGran

ArgyllGran Report 24 Apr 2018 11:41

I would go with Kense's suggestion.

Does the double f only occur at the start of nouns in the Will?

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Old genealogists never die.....they just lose their census.

WhiffingSiggs

WhiffingSiggs Report 26 Apr 2018 08:00

Yes, that makes sense, funeral and farmer being the two obvious ones. Other F words with just the single F. Thank you.

Researching:
Siggs of Suffolk, Cambridgeshire, Essex and West London, Wise of North Hampshire, Wiltshire and North London and Aubrey/Whiting of South Wales/Herefordshire.