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Title: Help with handwriting
Post by: shakel on Wednesday 01 December 21 06:59 GMT (UK)

Hoping you can help again this time please.
I am stuck on the last name -
Apprentice to Mrs Sarah .......?
                    Goulburn
Regards
Shakel

Title: Re: Help with handwriting
Post by: wivenhoe on Wednesday 01 December 21 07:29 GMT (UK)

Possibly -
    Gr*her

G the same as for Goulburn.  If second letter is consonant,  third should be a vowel.

Do you have  no clues otherwise?.  Who is the apprentice...age, gender, when were they apprenticed.....what employment? Is is a young person from an orphanage?

Is this Goulburn New South Wales?   When?

Title: Re: Help with handwriting
Post by: shakel on Wednesday 01 December 21 07:51 GMT (UK)

Yes it was in Goulburn NSW.
Archibald Wilson was his name, He, and his brothers and sister were in the Randwick Asylum for Destitute Children in the 1870,s.
He was 12 when he was sent to Goulburn. His brothers and sister were sent to various places across NSW.
Thank you for your reply

Title: Re: Help with handwriting
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 01 December 21 08:57 GMT (UK)

It could be Grathe.

The t is the  same as in Apprentice

 

Title: Re: Help with handwriting
Post by: Gadget on Wednesday 01 December 21 09:04 GMT (UK)

My second interpretation is Gratler.

Title: Re: Help with handwriting
Post by: shakel on Wednesday 01 December 21 09:21 GMT (UK)

Thank you for your reply.
It's always good to see what others think.