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Title: Name beginning with E
Post by: Nats185 on Saturday 21 August 21 19:40 BST (UK)
Can anyone read this name? I think it is a man but it could be a woman as it is a marriage witness.
Thank you
Title: Re: Name beginning with E
Post by: PaulineJ on Saturday 21 August 21 20:00 BST (UK)
Is it a signature, or is more of the certificate in the same hand?

Provide a link if the certificate is online, else post a larger snippet.
Title: Re: Name beginning with E
Post by: Nats185 on Saturday 21 August 21 20:14 BST (UK)
It is a signature, here is the whole thing. Thank you
Title: Re: Name beginning with E
Post by: osprey on Saturday 21 August 21 20:20 BST (UK)
possibly Emilia Lancaster.
Title: Re: Name beginning with E
Post by: mckha489 on Saturday 21 August 21 20:24 BST (UK)
Red boxed as I was going to say Emilia Lancaster

So agreeing with Osprey.

I think the mark above the second letter is an artefact not part of her signature.
Title: Re: Name beginning with E
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 22 August 21 00:54 BST (UK)
A hurriedly written Emmeline?
Title: Re: Name beginning with E
Post by: josey on Sunday 22 August 21 07:31 BST (UK)
I agree some form of Emmeline, either hurriedly written or spelled differently. If it is the second witness more likely to be, though not necessarily, a woman. I suggest finding a baptism or census entry. Where and what year is the marriage?

ADDED: A possibility?
1901 RG13; Piece: 1316; Folio: 74; Page: 40 Watford, Herts
Richard Lancaster   27 plumber
Emmeline Lancaster   25b Bushey
Violet Lancaster   4
Sidney Lancaster   2
Mary T Lancaster   20

But there are entries on various census/registers/registrations for Emelina, Emilina, Emmeline, Emeline, Emoline Lancasters on ancestry.
Title: Re: Name beginning with E
Post by: Ruskie on Sunday 22 August 21 10:31 BST (UK)
What is the date and place of the marriage please Nats? (to give us an idea if Josey might be on the right track).  :)