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RobinClay
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Gran's prayerbook inscription
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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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genjen
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
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Sunday 14 February 10 10:38 GMT (UK) »
To me it looks like
'Violet'
From W.L.F
In memory!
Followed by the date.
Jen
All Census Look Ups Are Crown Copyright from
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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
RobinClay
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
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Sunday 14 February 10 12:48 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: genjen on Sunday 14 February 10 10:38 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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ainslie
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
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Sunday 14 February 10 12:50 GMT (UK) »
I'll second Jen.
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genjen
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
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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.
Jen
All Census Look Ups Are Crown Copyright from
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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
Geoff-E
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
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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.
Today I broke my personal record for most consecutive days alive.
genjen
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
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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
All Census Look Ups Are Crown Copyright from
www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
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
PaulStaffs
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
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Tuesday 16 February 10 21:23 GMT (UK) »
In matrimony!
Of course
Lydart
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Re: Gran's prayerbook inscription
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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 ?
Dorset/Wilts/Hants: Trowbridge Williams Sturney/Sturmey Prince Foyle/Foil Hoare Vincent Fripp/Frypp Triggle/Trygel Adams Hibige/Hibditch Riggs White Angel Cake
C'wall/Devon/France/CANADA (Barkerville, B.C.): Pomeroy/Pomerai/Pomroy
Som'set: Clark(e) Fry
Durham: Law(e)
London: Hanham Poplett
Lancs/Cheshire/CANADA (Kelowna, B.C. & Sask): Stubbs Walmesley
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