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Possibly the three earliest official 'Drysdale' documents

I have three Drysdale Testaments from the Scotlandspeople website (two from 1546 and one from 1553) they may contain useful genealogical information which is relevant to the origins of the Drysdale Surname or they may be just an inventory of farm tools, chickens, pigs etc and who gets them.

I approached 4 professional transcribers to see if they could do anything and the consensus was that they were too difficult for them to tackle - untidy handwritten secretarie script combined with a combination of old scots and Latin language.

The wills are

ScotlandsPeople Dunblane - James Drisdall Testament 1546 2 shts

ScotlandsPeople Dunblane - John Drysdaill Testament 1546

ScotlandsPeople Dunblane - John Drysdall 1553 Tillicoultry 2 shts

If anybody would like to have a shot at transcription, or just download the pdfs for records purposes please feel free, I have included some shots of the first pages of the three wills for info:

The pdfs are attached here also

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Permalink Reply by Ronald Drysdale on May 30, 2023 at 22:27

Just a footnote to go with the above post.

Please note the copyright status of the above documents.

https://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk/content/copyright

Permalink Reply by William Douglas on May 31, 2023 at 11:54

Amazing documents!
Sadly I have no idea what they say.

It is interesting that they should be from Dunblane. Do we have any family trees that include Drysdales from that town?

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