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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me What These Initials Are?
« Reply #9 on: Sunday 11 April 10 10:50 BST (UK) »

Hi...I just realised I spelt your name wrong!

Sorry.
HUGUENOTS, Silk weavers, Bethnal Green, Mdx, France
Sharpe - Bethnal Green, Mdx
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McMillan - Kilmarnock, Beith, Kilbirnie (all Ayrshire), Glasgow, Ireland
Young - Beith, Kilbirnie, Ayrshire
Hamilton - Glasgow, Midlothian, Calcutta India.

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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me What These Initials Are?
« Reply #10 on: Sunday 11 April 10 11:35 BST (UK) »
Thank you everybody for your replies. My family surnames include Ruscoe and Rathbone, so I am pleased that you think the last letter is an R. The fob comes from that side of the family, I am inclined towards the Ruscoes as I don't think the Rathbones would have had the money for such things!

However I willl now have to investigate a bit further as I can't think who would have had HC as their first names. There is a Henry, but as far as I am aware he didn't have a middle name.

Thanks again.

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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me What These Initials Are?
« Reply #11 on: Sunday 11 April 10 23:07 BST (UK) »
It could possibly be TCR, where the C has 2 downstrokes to make up for its otherwise simple form, and the first downstroke doesn't have flourishes like the other letters.
I can't see a bridging line to make and H of the first letter.

Colin

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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me What These Initials Are?
« Reply #12 on: Monday 12 April 10 00:52 BST (UK) »
Looking again, I think Colin might be right about the first letter not being an H.  What I thought was a cross-line is actually a scratch in the silver.

I've gone over each of the engraved lines with a different colour.  This doesn't necessarily mean that one colour = one letter, I just thought it might make it easier for people to sort out all the different curlicues  ;)

Cheers
Prue


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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me What These Initials Are?
« Reply #13 on: Monday 12 April 10 02:17 BST (UK) »
Nicely done Prue. :)

What I see is the Yellow line as part of the flourishing R, which leaves the purple C shape in the middle to join up with the red C.

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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me What These Initials Are?
« Reply #14 on: Monday 12 April 10 02:21 BST (UK) »
I think the purple "C" should be a separate colour, actually, now that I look at it...the flourish out to the left of the "R" ends where the top curl of the "C" begins.

Still, I'm glad you think it has helped!  ;D

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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me What These Initials Are?
« Reply #15 on: Monday 12 April 10 04:28 BST (UK) »
Wow, thanks Prue! The colours certainly make it much easier to see the letters.

I can see what you mean Colin about the first letter being a T. This was actually my first thought when I got this fob - either a J or a T.

It gives me more food for thought as to who it might have belonged to.

Thank you everybody for your input.

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Re: Can Anyone Tell Me What These Initials Are?
« Reply #16 on: Monday 12 April 10 10:06 BST (UK) »
That helps a lot Prue.   :D
I still think it's H R S. Also, I think the central R is larger and probably the family name, with the H S as given names.

Leonie.
Direct matriarchal line; ENNIS-Yeatman-Cooper-Papps-Ryland-Lechford/Luxford-Bagshaw-Henriett
ENNIS-Thomas-Bonnin-Aldridge-Williams-Harding-Brown.
ENNIS-Davis/Davies-Buck-Oakley-
JONES-Roberts-Handy-Ross-Warrillow-Eagles-Cotterill-Bailey.
JONES-Walton-Grayson-Stobbs-Baldwin-Ibbotson-Scott.
JONES-Goodwin-Parker-Instant-Hubbard-Hancock-Skinner.

STILL LOOKING FOR: Elizabeth Ann Balfour ENNIS nee DAVIS. Disappeared in Adelaide, South Australia. 1881.