Help!! can anyone read this name?

[Bay Horse]

I keep seeing 'Elizabeth O'Riley' or similar.

 

[Sis]

I keep seeing 'Elizabeth O'Riley' or similar.

I reckon there's and i there and a y at the end. it's the rest of it that has me stumped now

 

[Bay Horse]

Earley?

The dot of the 'i' could be a mark on the page.

 

[Archie's Mum]

Mum is ruled out because she was deceased. So to rule out Elizabeth, her sister could you compare her 'Elizabeth' on her marriage record to Alfred George Lavers in Plymouth to the 'Elizabeth' witness on this one?

 

[MollyMay]

For what it is worth, I read it as - Barns

 

[AnnB]

I keep seeing 'Elizabeth O'Riley' or similar.

Yep, that was my first thought, but the apostrophe is in the wrong place......although that could just be an anomaly of their signature. Now I can't seem to see anything but O'Riley

 

[mugwortismy cat]

Blimey! So many tried, so little agreement although quite a few think it begins with B ... or O ...

@Sis More of the page won't help as the signature is the only example of that person's handwriting

@Archie's Mum I doubt any Plymouth marriage images are on Ancestry, not sure about FMP I can't see Lavers in it no matter how hard I try

@Bay Horse I read Early too, but not a typical Dorset name, and I am really not convinced

@Philippa I love your laughing kidney bean

thank you everyone, perhaps I should leave it there, it's a marriage witness, may not be an important connection at all, though I still think the writing is old fashioned and a little 'elderly'

 

[Bay Horse]

I still think the writing is old fashioned and a little 'elderly'

Yes! I thought that, too.

Could, then, the 'O', if it is indeed an 'O', be a middle initial?

Yes, yes, I know you said 'leave it'.

 

[Sis]

I doubt any Plymouth marriage images are on Ancestry, not sure about FMP

Not on FMP, just checked.

 

[mugwortismy cat]

Elizabeth Jane Stone, Eliza's sister is on a tree marrying Alfred George Lavers 2 Sept 1892 in Plymouth

Just been looking into this and I am sure they have the wrong Elizabeth. There is potential for confusion with two James Stones baptising children in Wyke Regis at the same time, one has a wife Elizabeth and the other Elizabeth Deborah. Also confusion in that Stone is a rather common name in those parts.
My James Stone is normally described as a fisherman on his children's baptisms, later as a labourer. The other James Stone is a labourer and his wife's name is normally given in full.

My Elizabeth is just plain Elizabeth on her baptism on 3 April 1870, and is probably the birth registered in Jan-Mar 1870; Elizabeth Jane is registered Apr-Jun 1870, so I can see why they might get confused, but I haven't seen her baptism in the Wyke Regis register, there is however one in Portesham (same registration district) late Dec 1869 ??

 

[mugwortismy cat]

Aha, I think I have found Elizabeth as a nurse in an Insane Asylum (as was her sister Eliza) but in Fareham, Hampshire

 

[mugwortismy cat]

I've solved it!!

Found a marriage in Camberwell St Giles for an Elizabeth Stone bc1870, father James a fisherman. Snip of the signatures ... don't you think the bride's signature looks like the witness signature from my first post?

 

[Daft Bat]

I've solved it!!

Found a marriage in Camberwell St Giles for an Elizabeth Stone bc1870, father James a fisherman. Snip of the signatures ... don't you think the bride's signature looks like the witness signature from my first post?

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Yay! Looks good to me!

 

[Philippa]

Absolutely, Mugs (except that the kidney bean isn't laughing in this one!!)

 

[mugwortismy cat]

Congratulations @Daft Bat for being right from the very beginning (I've often said that I don't know how she does it, I still don't!) I hope you have a few tons of little mint balls and chuff away

And thank you @Archie's Mum for steering me towards the sister Elizabeth (I possibly would have got there by myself, but it would have taken longer as Elizabeth is quite far down the list of children to investigate)

 

[Daft Bat]

Congratulations @Daft Bat for being right from the very beginning (I've often said that I don't know how she does it, I still don't!) I hope you have a few tons of little mint balls and chuff away

You're welcome.

 

[AnnB]

I don't think there's any doubt - that Daft Bat really ain't as daft as she makes out.......

 

[Sis]

Well done mugs and super sleuth of the week DB!

 

[Old Stoneface]

I've come to this late, but I'll add my twopenn'orth, anyway.

I think it says Squiggle.

Some-one should have taught the young lady that you dot 'i's and cross 't's, not t'other way round