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Title: Help with deciphering handwriting please!
Post by: Yellowbird on Tuesday 27 September 16 08:53 BST (UK)
Any help in deciphering the writing in red ink on his school Admission's Register would be very much appreciated.  i can make out the odd word but not enough for it to make sense.

YB
Title: Re: Help with deciphering handwriting please!
Post by: lizdb on Tuesday 27 September 16 09:03 BST (UK)
Has hardly been ...... years. .......given for no previous school attendance

Title: Re: Help with deciphering handwriting please!
Post by: Kay99 on Tuesday 27 September 16 09:08 BST (UK)
Has hardly been ...... years. ..reason?.....given for no previous school attendance
Title: Re: Help with deciphering handwriting please!
Post by: Jamjar on Tuesday 27 September 16 09:08 BST (UK)
...reason given

J.
Title: Re: Help with deciphering handwriting please!
Post by: Yellowbird on Tuesday 27 September 16 09:21 BST (UK)
Thanks guys :)

So it looks to be:  Has hardly been....... years.   Reason given for no previous school attendance.

There is another little bit on the page which I cannot read if I may trouble you further....

YB
Title: Re: Help with deciphering handwriting please!
Post by: Bookbox on Tuesday 27 September 16 10:36 BST (UK)
So it looks to be:  Has hardly been....... years.   Reason given for no previous school attendance

I believe it reads ...

Has had ring worm nearly a year, reason ^given^ for no previous school attendance

(Ringworm was a very common cause of being off school.)
Title: Re: Help with deciphering handwriting please!
Post by: Bookbox on Tuesday 27 September 16 11:11 BST (UK)
There is another little bit on the page which I cannot read if I may trouble you further....

I think this second extract might read ... re. Woodbridge Rd
Perhaps the child removed to another school? Not sure about the W, so a bit more of the page might help.
Title: Re: Help with deciphering handwriting please!
Post by: Jamjar on Tuesday 27 September 16 11:23 BST (UK)
So it looks to be:  Has hardly been....... years.   Reason given for no previous school attendance

I believe it reads ...

Has had ring worm nearly a year, reason ^given^ for no previous school attendance

(Ringworm was a very common cause of being off school.)

I think so, too. It definitely is had and not hardly.

J.
Title: Re: Help with deciphering handwriting please!
Post by: Yellowbird on Tuesday 27 September 16 11:51 BST (UK)
A big thank you to you all for taking the time to look and reply.  I am happy to go with the 'Has had ring worm......"

Bookbox - Woodbridge Road would certainly make sense.   Many thanks for your help.

YB