i need help reading a name in a will, please. i know who everyone is except for the niece whose name i can't read.
prerogative court of canterbury wills on ancestry: dorothy cloake 1804 romford, essex
2nd last line on page 1:
"unto my three nieces, mary mc? widow, sarah prior and anne prior, spinsters"
repeated again on page 2, line 15 from bottom of main will (where wittness signatures are)
"and niece mary mckea? widow, executrixes..."
and again in the probate "by the oath of mary mc? widow"
any ideas on what the name is? the handwriting is florid, even for pcc wills!
assuming her maiden name is "prior"- as she is mentioned with sarah and anne, i can't find a mary prior marriage to a "mc" anything in essex.
