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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Need help on wife's first name please
« on: Sunday 30 August 09 16:53 BST (UK)  »
Surely the "Het-Hert" suggestion is a red herring (or should that be a wild goose?).  Irish-Egyptians are a bit thin on the ground.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Need help on wife's first name please
« on: Saturday 29 August 09 17:39 BST (UK)  »
I agree that the first letter does not look quite like the "H" in "Head" and the third letter does not look quite like the "r" in other words.  My money would be on "Kent", which is not necessarily the same as the English county between London and Calais.  I came across it once a long time ago (with an ancient form of - possibly - Celtic capital "K") in a book of locomotive names.  I believe it was in the Isle of Man and could be a Manx or Gaelic name - Manx and Gaelic (both Scots and Irish) are very closely related to each other.
Sheldon

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