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Title: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: GrahamPC on Monday 25 April 22 11:22 BST (UK)
Can anyone suggest what the name of this marriage witness might be? Eliz ?
Title: Re: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: Stanwix England on Monday 25 April 22 14:47 BST (UK)
I think maybe it's Elizabeth Goares or Godres. There does seem to be a faint upward stroke on the third letter, but I can't tell if they meant to write an a or d.
Title: Re: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: Treetotal on Monday 25 April 22 14:51 BST (UK)
I see (Eliz)abeth Goares.
Carol
Title: Re: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: Whipby on Monday 25 April 22 19:43 BST (UK)
I see an x in there but can’t really make a name with an x in it from the other letters!

… or could it be Gooles?
Title: Re: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 25 April 22 19:59 BST (UK)
Maybe  Goves as a outside possible. She could have been not a very confident writer  :-\
Title: Re: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 25 April 22 20:33 BST (UK)

In case we might be able to find her on other records, the marriage was between Benjamin Hart and Elizabeth Jackson

14th October 1782 Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire
Title: Re: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 25 April 22 20:40 BST (UK)
There's a marriage in Breedon on the Hill in 1787. The bride is an Elizabeth Goves

Not sure, but this is her signature for comparison.

Add -will do a smaller snip!   now added



Title: Re: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: Whipby on Monday 25 April 22 21:53 BST (UK)
Looks like you’ve cracked it, Gadget, that G is identical.  Looks like she’s put an a in the first signature, but as we know, spelling was more fluid then than it is now!
Title: Re: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 25 April 22 22:50 BST (UK)
The Eliz  looks very much the same too  :)

PS - the Clerk has entered her surname as Groves
Title: Re: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: Gadget on Monday 25 April 22 23:18 BST (UK)
She married a William Lacey/Lacy . There is a burial of an Elizabeth Lacy on 8 Aug 1830, aged 65 (so b.c. 1765)
Title: Re: Witness name - Eliz ?
Post by: GrahamPC on Wednesday 27 April 22 08:33 BST (UK)
Thanks everyone for looking at this, especially Gadget for the signature comparison. It certainly looks like Goves.