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Offline RobinClay

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Gran's prayerbook inscription
« on: Sunday 14 February 10 10:35 GMT (UK) »
Your interpretations are invited fro this inscription, please?

It's in the flyleaf of a prayerbook / hymn book.  Violet was my grandmother; tthe date is her wedding day.
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 14 February 10 10:38 GMT (UK) »
To me it looks like

'Violet'
From W.L.F

In memory!

Followed by the date.

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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 14 February 10 12:48 GMT (UK) »
In memory!
Thank you !

Any other ideas, please ?

I had thought "In sensitivity", but yours is probably more likely.

WLF is probably Canon Feilden, her godfather.
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 14 February 10 12:50 GMT (UK) »
I'll second Jen.
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 14 February 10 13:02 GMT (UK) »
But if it was her wedding day, why would he write "In Memory"? I find that a bit strange.

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SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 14 February 10 13:09 GMT (UK) »
I think it may say A memory

I'm not sure if it's an exclamtion mark or a question mark.
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 14 February 10 13:18 GMT (UK) »
Ah Geoff - I think you could be right there. 'A Memory' sounds more likely. And I agree about the exclamation/question mark as well...it could be either, couldn't it?

Jen

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ESS: Howe French Cant Annis Noakes Turner Marshall Makerow Duck Spurden Harmony
SCT: Howe Shaw Raitt Milne Forsyth Birnie Crichton Duncan McBeath Daniel Hay Robertson Jaffrey Smith McDonald Alexander Craighead
NRY: Bushby Smith Bland Iley Cunion Kendrew Thornbury Favell Lonsdale Crossland Rudd Pratt Gibson
WES; Dickenson Jackson Ewbank Waller
STS: White
SRY: Knight
DUR: Smith Littlefair
HAM: Williams Grose Lush Venson

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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 16 February 10 21:23 GMT (UK) »
In matrimony!

Of course  ;)

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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 16 February 10 21:33 GMT (UK) »
If its a prayer book, and the giver was a clergyman, any of the above suggestions don't ring true ... but I must admit I can't think of anything that fits the inscription; might he have put something with religious over-tones ? 
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