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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: g eli on Wednesday 24 September 25 23:35 BST (UK)
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Can anyone tell me what this baptism says, particularly the name of his father.
Thank you.
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Leaving out the father's firstname it is:
Roger Louthe the sonne of [?] Louthe
was baptised the xjth (or xith) day of october in
the yeare afores(ai)d
Regarding the firstname:
I believe that most of the name Henery can be discerned between the black lines (see attachment).
Certainly I can see Hen at the beginning and ry at the end.
However the presence of the tall letter about 2/3 of the way along is a concern. If it is print-through it's very well-defined.
This letter looks very like the f in aforesd in the third line.
The spacing is also troubling - the distance between the n and the r looks too long to be only one letter.
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I now think that Hemfory or a variant is more likely.
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Better to suggest: H?mfory
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ADDED:
Better to suggest: H?mfory
For what it's worth, I agree. But there may also be something written before the H ?
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Not sure it's any easier to see on this?
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Thank you all for your replies. Your answers give credence to the hope I had that the father was Humfre in some form or other. Ancestry had Richard which I couldn't see.
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But there may also be something written before the H ?
Thanks Bookbox. My view on this was that the line which makes the ascender of the top half of the H loops around and then sweeps backwards at a shallower angle. It can be seen to extend at least halfway back to the f of of.
Rightly or wrongly I took this to mean that when it was written none of the artifacts which now intrude on that area were present.
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Yes, thank you. It's now clearer on goldie61's cleaned up version.