* COMPLETED, thanks* Help with handwriting, please

[kgbroadfoot]

Can anyone help me with the name of the person who performed the marriage ceremony?   the Reverend  _____  McDowall
Thanks,
Kim

[Gadget]

Hi

I think it is Wm(superscript)- short for William.


Gadget

[lizdb]

I would say Wm, short for William, but there are so  many loops comnig down from the line above, arent there, for it to be clear!

[Gadget]

Yes Liz - the word above is 'accordingly' and the g and y drop down. On enlargement, it could even be Revd Mr McDowall.


Gadget

Added - i think it is Mr now -look at the superscript letter at 300%

[Roger The Hat]

Is it significant that the groom appears to be a Peter McDowall?

Could the groom and Reverend be related?

Just a thought.

[kgbroadfoot]

Thanks everyone for the help.   I also wondered if there was a family connection, but there seem to be a lot of McDowalls around! 
Both Wm and Mr both seem to be good guesses.  I just can't quite figure out the big loop at the beginning that's against the loop of the g from accordingly on line above.
And does anyone know if Reverend Mr. is/was a common title found in marriage records of the time?

   Actually, the big loop I mentioned before looks remarkably like the one in M of McDowall 

[lizdb]

That loop looks the same as the loop he puts in his 'M' at the beginning of McDowell

[Gadget]

Hi kgbroadfoot 

I've seen the Revd Mr <surname> in many Scottish records so it was not unusual at all.


Gadget

[drhjamieson]

I wonder if this is Rev Mr McDowall.  Comrie is not far from Alloa and Rev Peter McDowall was minister of the Moncrieff Memorial UP Church in Alloa from about 1825.