Has anyone else transcribed a complete inventory and deed of settlement from the downloaded images from a Wills & Testament File from scotlandspeople ?
I seem to have picked up quite a few from the Hood family in Dundee and the Jolly family in Kincardineshire and feel that given the way that the Inventories and Deeds/Bonds are collated with no regard to an easily read format and in order to make sense I have to transcribe the entire thing.
I’ve just finished transcribing the Will & Testament for James Hood Brewer and Maltman died in 1845 in Dundee, all 15 pages, some 8,000 + words, but I now know about ‘Burgage and Blench Tenure’ also such latin phrases as ‘singuli in solidum’ and ‘Brevitatis Causa’, ‘Jus Mariti’. Though I am aware of the difference ‘know about’ and 'understanding fully' what these mean (especially the tenure and feu duty aspects of property law).
It does seem a lot of work but I feel that copying out the does give me a better understanding of the situation of what someone’s achievement sand how he/she regards other members of their family.
I do have a query though, maybe someone can help. It seems that James Hood left £3507 pounds of non-heritable legacies which is a not inconsiderable amount, but he also left 6 properties to be disposed of. I take that there is no way to find how much was realised in the disposal of these properties?
PS I’ve always had an idea my attraction for going down the pub and having a beer or two had a genetic element, and now finding my GGGG grandfather was a brewer now confirms it. I can now have drink my beer with clear(ish) conscience
