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Last month we looked at the topic of handwriting with a focus on burial records and wills. How did you get on with the three challenges that we set you?

Document A Will of Sarah Mossman, Prerogative Court of Canterbury 1857

I How does Sarah describe her servant, Mary Wagstaff? Sarah made a bequest to Mary Wagstaff, her ‘kind and valued’ servant.

II The 1851 Census finds Sarah living in Shefford, Bedfordshire but her husband is listed as ‘Absent’. Where was he on census night?

Thomas Mossman was a cattle salesman and he