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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: Hollie.47 on Thursday 09 May 13 11:41 BST (UK)
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Hello,
I've been trying to decipher the groom's parent's names on a marriage certificate I've had for a while and I still can't decipher it. Help please?
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I read it as
Frank Leonard Lewis
Ann Bremer, deceased
Dawn M
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Hi Hollie
I agree with Billyblue, except for the first word - it really doesn't look like Frank to me, as the last letter seems to be a distinct "i" ?? It looks something like "Ferali"... hmmmmmm, hard one.
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I too read the first name as Ferali or similar, at first.
but the more I looked, the more it became Frank.
I think that last letter is the 'hump' on the k, and what appears as a dot on an i is just a blob of ink.
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Dawn M
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There are other suggestions and more info on this link too.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,580779.msg4351571.html#msg4351571
The bride and groom are Walter J S Lewis and Theresa A A Payne
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I have a hard time seeing 'Frank' but wondered if instead of a name its some kind of a title. Perhaps a misspelled 'Fusilier'?
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On your earlier thread on the same subject I suggested the name was Frank, and I still think that's what it is :D
I suggested that there was a stray ink spot over part of the 'k' which makes it look like 'li' instead of 'k'.
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,580779.msg4326658.html#msg4326658
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Rather than concentrate on the writing of a very difficult to read image,why not post a look for the birth or death of the chap himself on the Australian boards? Make sure you copy and paste a link to this thread though.
Lots of the Australian Rootschatters have all sorts of access to useful info ;D
Carol
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Not sure if this is your chap. Born 1878 (Family tree on another site has DOB)
Walter J Lewis
Death Date: 1932
Death Place: New South Wales
Father's Name: Lidcombe
Mother's Name: Annie
Registration Year: 1932
Registration Place: Granville, New South Wales
Registration number: 11005
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Thanks everyone, still not to sure on his name or his wife's maiden name.
Carol - That seems like an excellent idea, I've checked birth, deaths and marriages for both of them but have found nothing at all.
Susan - That is the son of the parent's listed above and I've got that death certificate for him - he died in Lidcombe at 56 years and it has nothing about his father unfortunately. I have him being born 1875 though ???
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For what it is worth I also saw it as Frank Leonard Lewis and Anne Bremer deceased - (before reading what others thought!)
Wiggy :)