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Title: Decipher this name
Post by: Amy K on Saturday 11 November 06 20:08 GMT (UK)
Can anyone help me decipher the mothers maiden name form this birth certificate please - i'm stumped!
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: Magrat on Saturday 11 November 06 21:47 GMT (UK)
Hi,
The only thing I can think of is Forkner? A misspelling of Faulkner perhaps?

Magrat
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: Ruskie on Saturday 11 November 06 21:56 GMT (UK)
Fortner perhaps? Though the "n" looks like it should be something else ...
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: Cal241 on Saturday 11 November 06 22:00 GMT (UK)
when was the birth and what area?

maybe a search around the area may give some clues. I was just thinking on census returns there maybe family near?

Just an idea.....

I have no idea what name it is but they must have used the scratchiest pen they could find  ;D
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: subee on Saturday 11 November 06 22:15 GMT (UK)
Could it be Farmer?
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: Sisterjane on Saturday 11 November 06 23:42 GMT (UK)
I think it looks like Fastner..

Joe
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: Bill749 on Saturday 11 November 06 23:46 GMT (UK)
Hi Amy

Have you looked for a marriage for the parents?  Give us the details you have and we can have a look round.

Regards, Bill
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: Gadget on Sunday 12 November 06 00:03 GMT (UK)
Just wondering if it is Farkar - a phonetic spelling of the Scots  Farquhar


Gadget
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: Amy K on Sunday 12 November 06 16:48 GMT (UK)
Thank you everyone for your suggestions.

Mary Ann ?? was born approx 1810 in Alverstoke, Hampshire. She married William Bevis in aprox. 1828/9 in the Alverstoke / Gosport area.

I had hoped this birth certificate (which is for the brother of my ancestor) would shed some light on her maiden name - but alas!
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: SooCatt on Sunday 12 November 06 16:59 GMT (UK)
The IGI has a marriage for a William Bevis to a Mary Ann Footner 27.7.1830 in St Thomas Portsmouth.

Any good?

Susan
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: Amy K on Sunday 12 November 06 17:43 GMT (UK)
Susan,

I think you might have cracked it! How that marriage would have escaped me in the first place is a mystery - I must be going gaga in my dotage.

Thank you so much.
Title: Re: Decipher this name
Post by: SooCatt on Sunday 12 November 06 18:50 GMT (UK)
That's why Rootschat is so good - someone out there always spots the ones we overlook.

Glad to have helped.  Warm fuzzy feeling  :)

Susan