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Help with Signature
« on: Tuesday 10 May 11 18:50 BST (UK) »
Hi,

This signature is of a witness on a marriage certificate of one of my ancestors, however I cannot decipher their first name. I think the surname is Trapp, but cannot read the first name.

Any help would be much appreciated,

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Re: Help with Signature
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 10 May 11 19:02 BST (UK) »
Emilie Trapp.

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Re: Help with Signature
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 10 May 11 19:10 BST (UK) »
I agree, Emilie Trapp  :)

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« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 10 May 11 19:33 BST (UK) »






I'll make it three, Emilie Trapp.

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Re: Help with Signature
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 10 May 11 20:08 BST (UK) »
Thank you, that was my guess, but I searched ancestry for that and there was no-one of that name. :-\

I am guessing they were originally Emily, and decided to change the spelling of their name!

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Re: Help with Signature
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 10 May 11 20:21 BST (UK) »
Remember there was no standardised spelling of any word before the mid 1700s at the earliest. What period is the signature from?
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« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 10 May 11 20:25 BST (UK) »
It is on a 1915 Marriage Certificate

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« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 10 May 11 20:41 BST (UK) »
Don't worry too much about the spelling. People were often inconsistent. She might even be an Emeline on her birth certificate!

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« Reply #8 on: Wednesday 11 May 11 15:00 BST (UK) »
Since Emily and variants was a popular Christian name at that period, I think we can assume it is one of those. To return to my original point, it is not 18th century then.
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