Daily Ancestorheres
Heres (also haeres) is Latin for an heir or heiress, the person who inherits property; heredes means heirs.
Heres means heir or heiress. Documents also spell it haeres, and the word changes to heredis, heredem or heredes with grammar.
You meet heres mostly in wills, land records and court papers rather than baptism entries. Read the full list of heirs in a will: it can name children and in-laws you would not find elsewhere.
As seen in a recordLatin will, Bohemia, 1760s
Heredem meum universalem instituo filium meum Antonium
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