Researchers who spent 15 years transcribing 400 wills from 17th-century Yorkshire make fascinating discoveries

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Meet the researchers who spent 15 years transcribing the parchment wills of over 400 people who lived in Halifax in the late 17th century - and have now published their quirky findings

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In 2015, they suffered a setback with the death of Alan Petford from lung cancer aged just 61; the course leader had chosen the material they would transcribe together from archives held in York and they were determined to continue his legacy. "Women were quite often equal partners, and daughters were named as executors alongside sons. Widows would keep on their husband’s businesses and many were running inns. They were also prominent moneylenders in an early local banking system, and one of the richest women we found had a massive amount loaned out in bonds.”

 

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