translate this name on the envelope - c.1872

[ScouseBoy]

I suggest that you may like to read   "Hair Analysis"    on Wiki Pedia.

Is there such a thing as Forensic Archeology.    If I were  you  I would   try to contact your County Archeologist  and ask them do   they know  of any  university research department  which may be interested  in looking at this hair sample.

[genealogistsykes]

problem with that is that i live in Jersey, Channel Islands. 

[genealogistsykes]

The writing underneath the crest is in Latin, it reads:

'IN COELO CONFIDENUS'

'Heaven In The Positive'

On the back of the envelope it says:

C. HICKSON
NEWCASTLE, STAFFORDSHIRE - Could that be the address of the person who gave it to one of my ancestors?

[Redroger]

I suggest that you may like to read   "Hair Analysis"    on Wiki Pedia.

Is there such a thing as Forensic Archeology.    If I were  you  I would   try to contact your County Archeologist  and ask them do   they know  of any  university research department  which may be interested  in looking at this hair sample.

There is such a thing as forensic archaeology. It's principal use is in saving police time when bodies are discovered, often the result is "Foul play, but the murderer has been dead X hundred years!" I am sure a research department would be delighted to carry out the analysis, but unless you are rich you wouldn't like the bill.

[jancis]

Why are you so sure the hair belonged to a girl?
It might have been the curls of a boy at his first haircut perhaps.

[ceedee]

Not sure what the name is but there definitely seems to be a u in the middle of the name, if you compare the 2nd u in August and the u in curls they look really similar.  The first letter of each word is capitalised which makes it harder to read as there is a big flourish.  sorry not a lot of help

[Schooner]

Could it be Lucies curls?

Schooner

[Redroger]

Nice try, but that first letter just isn't an L.

[yn9man]

Another vote for niece's curls.

yn9man