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Title: Witness name please COMPLETED
Post by: sgc on Wednesday 15 December 10 07:21 GMT (UK)

Hi all,

Can anyone decipher the bottom witness's name to the London, 1846 marriage of John Nicolson and Marianne Wiseman?  It does not appear to be any family member that I can recognise - but Marianne and her father are a brick wall, and I need all the clues I can get!

Regards,
Stephanie     

Title: Re: Witness name please
Post by: Eyesee on Wednesday 15 December 10 09:04 GMT (UK)

Wondering if it is something like Buckeridge.

Ian C

Title: Re: Witness name please
Post by: danuslave on Wednesday 15 December 10 09:05 GMT (UK)

Or Cuckuridge?   :)

Title: Re: Witness name please
Post by: mare on Wednesday 15 December 10 09:14 GMT (UK)

A very clear uck iin the middle but the rest isn't as clear... I've stared at it for a while and even wondering if it is one name or 2 as in the line above but can't see a second capital letter  :-\

... the upward strokes in the first letter are very faint so I was imagining there could be a faint i (Mike) ...  then the 2nd to last letter is quite hard to imagine! and the 3rd to last is probably a very curly d

Title: Re: Witness name please
Post by: Eyesee on Wednesday 15 December 10 19:12 GMT (UK)

There was a BUCKERIDGE marriage in the same church as John and Marianne the year before.

Ian C

Title: Re: Witness name please
Post by: sgc on Thursday 16 December 10 03:01 GMT (UK)

Thanks everyone,

It may well be William Buckeridge, who married Elizabeth Louisa Pestell in the same church a year earlier.  He was a railway porter. 

You guys are good!

Regards, Stephanie