mother's name?

[kylejustin]

can anyone help read the surname of the mother in this will please? 9th row from the top. will of thomas hunt of romford in the parish of hornchurch, essex in 1755.

[PeteW1959]

Mary Meatham

[JudithM]

I read it as Mary Meacham - compare the c in decease two lines lower

[kylejustin]

i had thought that too. at first i thought 'measham' but the 's' in other words didn't match. i havn't heard of meatham as a name before.

[kylejustin]

i discounted 'meacham' because there is def a 'th' in the middle of the word.

[PeteW1959]

http://www.houseofnames.com/meatham-family-crest?a=54323-224

...and a search of the 1841 on Ancestry returns 581 Meathams

[AntonyM]

I think it is Meacham - the C matches that in decease and in executrix and also in expences three lines from the bottom.

[kylejustin]

i hate this writing. it's like this for most wills from the canterbury court up till the mid 19th century. never can read it easily!

i see what you mean with the 'c' resembling 't' in those words. ugh.

[vera2013]

Mary Moorham

Vera

[Janet]

Mary Streatham. Look at the same name the line below "wife of John Streatham?" The e that looks like an o is the same as the e in five.

Janet

[Anne in Carlisle]

No I thought it was an S but compare all the Ms .... Mother, Mary, Meacham (or Meatham ... not sure)

Anne

[Mary from Italy]

Definitely Meacham.

[kylejustin]

haha this is so much fun.....not. well i have 2 parishes to look in, romford and hornchurch. but i suspect the hunt's were not from romford originally, so mother mary may have lived in whatever parish they originated from.

thank you all so much for the help. i guess 'meacham' is the answer.

[maesglasssclub]

Mary Streatham, by comparing the other letters, very hard to decipher but definitely Mary ------tham
robert