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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: gingerslf on Wednesday 14 September 11 11:47 BST (UK)
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Anyone able to read it please? Possibly German origins!
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Hi
I think the surname of the first one is Weiss ( with long first s).
I'll go back and look again at the rest.
Jen :)
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I agree with Weiss for the first surname.
The second surname might be Minourd...?
Can't make out either first name, though :-\ Being "foreign" (at least to me) it makes it harder to see what they might be - usually if they're familiar names, even if the writing is difficult you can usually work out what it is.
Cheers
Prue
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The first name of the second witness has double s in the middle and I can't fathom it out at all?
What's the date of this document? It might help to look at censuses.
( though I'm not going to be able to do that as am just about to disappear, sorry!)
Up to you Prue! :)
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genjen
I was just about to post exactly that.
The wedding took place in Sheffield 1857 between Charles Eckhart and Christiana Klein
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Very tentative suggestion for first Christian name... Lindmar?
Pat
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I also thought it was weiss but I'm sure the first name is Ludovic. It definitely has an 'i' just before the last letter you can see the small dot on my copy?
The second christian name begins with an 'A' and ends with a 'd' but not sure about the rest?
Adele
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1st Christian name I see Ludomir or possibly Ludovic. Confirm Weiss, with initial long S
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I read the first one as Ludwig (with an underdeveloped g) Weiss, possibly the same one that died in Sheffield in Q2 1860.
Adrian
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Christian name of second witness might begin Ans----- Think you are on the right track about the surname
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Assuming they married in a church - have you considered checking the parish register (with the original signatures) on the off chance that they are more legible there? I can't make head nor tail of the first names.
Alexander
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Going against the concensus I see the first surname as Weils. Not sure why anyone would write an exceptionally long S right next to a small one
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Going against the concensus I see the first surname as Weils. Not sure why anyone would write an exceptionally long S right next to a small one
Because Maggie in that era it was customary to write any s in the beginning or middle of a word in the long S format. One thing that does go in favour of your proposal though is that if the family were German and the name was Weiss, then it would I think more usual to use the German double S at the end of the word, which looks something like a capital B. Perhaps there is someone of Rootschat who can produce these characters as specimens to assist?
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Wikipedia - Long s - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s
I assume Roger you are referring to the fact that in German Weiss may be written as Weiß
Alexander
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Exactly, but I do not have the keyboard skills to produce the proper character.