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Title: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: bekahsgran on Tuesday 22 November 05 21:07 GMT (UK)

Hi
Has anyone any ideas what this forename is please, I can read the '-innetta' bit but what on earth is the first letter supposed to be?
Would appreciate any help at all
Anne

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: PrueM on Tuesday 22 November 05 21:10 GMT (UK)

Could it be an N with an extra squiggle on the end, before the i?

Prue

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: bekahsgran on Tuesday 22 November 05 21:24 GMT (UK)

Hi Prue
I wondered that at first but then further over on the page is the word Nephew and the enumerators N is quite distinctive.
Here's that part of the image, what do you think?
Anne

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: sjsbc on Tuesday 22 November 05 21:37 GMT (UK)

HI,

the only letters which don't appear on the page in a capital form are

c f i k l o p q t u v w x z

The only one which appears with large amounts of hits on Google is Vinnetta and is listed as a name for many of the entries.

However, the entry really doesn't look like Vinnetta.  I still think it looks more like an N, but you are right that doesn't compare with the nephew entry.   

Do you have the reference for the census so someone can look at other pages the same enumerator has written for a wider comparison?

Sue

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: PaulineJ on Tuesday 22 November 05 21:55 GMT (UK)

Alternatively, look for a Rogers birth in the right place,right time and see which ...inetta's jump out at you? Or have you her on another census for a second opinion?

Pauline

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: bekahsgran on Tuesday 22 November 05 21:56 GMT (UK)

Hi Sue
The reference is
RG10 Piece 1717 Folio 52 Page 14
The village is Little Waldingfield, Suffolk
I agree it doesn't look like Vinetta, I was thinking maybe Winnetta, I know the W's on th epage are a little different but thought it might just be a scribbled W
Thanks for trying
Anne

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: bekahsgran on Tuesday 22 November 05 21:59 GMT (UK)

Hi Pauline
Why didn't I think of that, found her on the 1881
BONETTA ROGERS
What do you think, could it be BONETTA?
Anne

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: PaulineJ on Tuesday 22 November 05 22:05 GMT (UK)

Mar 1867 qtr. (courtesy of freebmd)

ROGERS    Bernetter         Sudbury    4a   456

Pauline

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: bekahsgran on Tuesday 22 November 05 22:08 GMT (UK)

Hi
Thanks for that, as the transcription asks for whats on the page I think I'll put down Binnetta and add the BERNETTER in the notes.
Thank you so much for that, I really am grateful
Anne

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: Hackstaple on Tuesday 22 November 05 23:37 GMT (UK)

I suggest it is a mispelled Ninetta.

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: mirl on Tuesday 22 November 05 23:57 GMT (UK)

I believe it to be Birnetta.

The capital is a poorly formed B.  The . over the r has a similar misplacement as the . over the a in William 5 places up and the . over the a in Maria a further 3 places up.

Cheers, Colin

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: Poacher on Wednesday 23 November 05 00:41 GMT (UK)

Hi,

It maybe Dinetta, my sister-in law is called Dinetta and she has a similar signature to that scanned on the screen


Rgds Furmaster

Title: Re: Any ideas on this Forename, please?
Post by: loo on Wednesday 23 November 05 09:07 GMT (UK)

Poinsetta?
(I think the season is getting to me!)