Help!! can anyone read this name?

mugwortismy cat

mugwortismy cat

Tenacious to the End!
A snip from a marriage of interest, all is fine but for the surname of witness no.2 :eek:. Anyone willing to risk an interpretation, please???

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Thanks Jan :D

Chimp, the best I could do initially was Early :rolleyes:

I'm still not quite sure what it says, but I am beginning to see how you got there DB, it's a very old-fashioned hand and that initial letter could be an old-fashioned form for an S. It could be the mother of the bride, if it says Elizabeth Stone
 
Have you got/can we find the marriage cert of Elizabeth ? to Mr Stone - a comparison of the signature might help to decide if it is the mother of the bride :)
 
AnnB said:
Have you got/can we find the marriage cert of Elizabeth ? to Mr Stone - a comparison of the signature might help to decide if it is the mother of the bride :)
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It's Elizabeth Hansford and James Stone at Wyke Regis in 1861; but the image on Ancestry looks as though it is a copy and all in the same hand, rather than the version that everyone signed :(

If you all want a look I could post a snip ...
 
Archie's Mum said:
James Stone and Elisabeth Hansford also had a daughter Elizabeth c1870
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Quite right, they did :) And when I was digging around today I think I found the death and burial of Elizabeth (Hansford) Stone and if I am right she would have been dead 3 years at the time of Eliza Margaret's marriage ...

The handwriting still looks a bit old fashioned to be Elizabeth sister of Eliza Margaret though (to my eye at least). But I suppose that would depend on who taught her to write. Then again I haven't found Elizabeth with certainty after 1881 ...
 
Well I know it looks nothing like it, but.........
Elizabeth Jane Stone, Eliza's sister is on a tree marrying Alfred George Lavers 2 Sept 1892 in Plymouth. If you really look hard at the signature what we see as the capital letter after Elizabeth could possibly be a capital 'J' for Jane. And when my imagination runs really wild the last name could be 'Lavers'.
Don't judge me yet until you study it really hard.o_O
 
Well my interpretive skills definitely need honing. I can get Elizabeth (how utterly perceptive of me) and then I see a laughing kidney bean (?) an A, an apostrophe, an N and a Y.

:confused:

(Oh yes, I got timed out in the second line, ignored it and kept typing and when I finished hit the X and then hit submit.)
 
Would it help if we saw a bit more of the page to try and compare with other writing, do you think?
 
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