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Offline gingerslf

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Can you read the names of witnesses?
« on: Wednesday 14 September 11 11:47 BST (UK) »
Anyone able to read it please? Possibly German origins!

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Re: Can you read the names of witnesses?
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 14 September 11 11:53 BST (UK) »
Hi

I think the surname of the first one is Weiss ( with long first s).

I'll go back and look again at the rest.

Jen :)
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Re: Can you read the names of witnesses?
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 14 September 11 12:04 BST (UK) »
I agree with Weiss for the first surname.

The second surname might be Minourd...?

Can't make out either first name, though  :-\  Being "foreign" (at least to me) it makes it harder to see what they  might be - usually if they're familiar names, even if the writing is difficult you can usually work out what it is.

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Re: Can you read the names of witnesses?
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 14 September 11 12:08 BST (UK) »
The first name of the second witness has double s in the middle and I can't fathom it out at all?

What's the date of this document? It might help to look at censuses.

( though I'm not going to be able to do that as am just about to disappear, sorry!)

Up to you Prue! :)
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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


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Re: Can you read the names of witnesses?
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 14 September 11 12:10 BST (UK) »
genjen

I was just about to post exactly that.
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Re: Can you read the names of witnesses?
« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 14 September 11 20:16 BST (UK) »
Very tentative suggestion for first Christian name... Lindmar?

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Re: Can you read the names of witnesses?
« Reply #6 on: Thursday 06 October 11 15:30 BST (UK) »
I also thought it was weiss but I'm sure the first name is Ludovic. It definitely has an 'i' just before the last letter you can see the small dot on my copy?   
The second christian name begins with an 'A' and ends with a 'd' but not sure about the rest?
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Re: Can you read the names of witnesses?
« Reply #7 on: Thursday 06 October 11 16:31 BST (UK) »
1st Christian name I see Ludomir or possibly Ludovic. Confirm Weiss, with initial long S
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Re: Can you read the names of witnesses?
« Reply #8 on: Thursday 06 October 11 17:19 BST (UK) »
I read the first one as Ludwig (with an underdeveloped g) Weiss, possibly the same one that died in Sheffield in Q2 1860.

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