Gran's prayerbook inscription

[Family Tree Maker]

I agree, why would it say in memory? It could say sincerely

[PrueM]

"A memory!"

Jen has the rest of it right 

[Emjaybee]

Try:

To insincerity!

Did she jilt him?

[Lydart]

I think is probably IS 'A memory' but why ?   And why is it followed with what I'm inclined to see as a question mark rather than an exclamation mark ? 


Maybe she had given up going to church, and he thought giving her a prayer book would jog her memory and maybe spur her into starting to attend again !

[genjen]

Maybe she was just leaving the area when she married, so it was given as a memory of him?

[RobinClay]

Actually - she lived with her parents in Burton-on-Trent; and her husband lived with his parents ditto.  After marriage in 1906, they moved about six miles away to what is now Needwood Manor Hotel, and he continued to work at Bass's brewery in Burton until 1925, initially riding to work on horseback.  The brewery had stables, of course, which were empty during the day, as the dray horses delivered the beer.

[Sloe Gin]

Definitely "A memory", I think - compare with the capital A in April.

As for the meaning: either he was referring to something in the past, which she would have recognised, but we will never know.  Something to do with her early church attendances, perhaps.  Or possibly he meant that the prayer book would always serve as a reminder of her wedding day.

[Borley Manor]

Hi,

    Maybe a look through a male eyes...

     Could it be:
                                  Violet from W.L.F.

                                   Le Anniversary ?

                                    date and 1906

[Sloe Gin]

It is "memory".  There are several points of comparison - the open 'o', the 'm', the 'r' and the Greek 'e'.