Improve your palaeography skills
Even in relatively recent documents, the handwriting can sometimes leave a lot to be desired. To the right, here’s a detail of a page from the burial register of Curry Rivel in Somerset, dating from 1881. Can you work out the names of the deceased?
(If you’d like the full burial register page, shown below, to have a go at transcribing all the entries, please email helen.t@family-tree.co.uk)