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[Nel86]

Hi folks,

Can anyone offer a different opinion on the name of the first witness on the Bishop Transcript to this  marriage?

To me it looks like Thomas J DUACHINS but I haven't been able to find a single individual to ever have that surname. The second looks like Richard White to me.

[Redroger]

Definitely Thos. Surname, try Dawkins.

[Gadget]

I think it's Thos Isaac <something>


There's definitely a gap between the c of the second word and the last bit

Still working on  it- not sure at all 


Gadget

[Nel86]

Definitely Thos. Surname, try Dawkins.

I had that thought but I came to the conclusion it was unlikely to be DAWKINS.

This marriage is in South Shields, Durham and there are only a couple of hits for Dawkins' tied to South Shields on the census's searchable at Ancestry, and only a handful all told in Durham and Northumberland in the I.G.I

[Gadget]

I think it's   ..chins  at the end

[Nel86]

Could the letter at the beginning of "Isaac", what I thought was a D, be a Q?
Quiggins is all I can come up with with that, and that doesn't look possible either.

[Edit] I suppose this being a transcript the transcription could be wrong.

[JenB]

If anyone wants to compare handwriting elsewhere on the page, this can be found at http://www.rootschat.com/links/073w/ Durham/ South Shields/ 1816 - 1825/ image 240.

Jennifer

[Nel86]

If anyone wants to compare handwriting elsewhere on the page, this can be found at http://www.rootschat.com/links/073w/ Durham/ South Shields/ 1816 - 1825/ image 240.

Jennifer

Thanks for that! I should have done that 

[Nel86]

Thomas Isaac INNS?