Witness name help pls Completed tks

[Lady Di]

The WHITE or BETHILL names could be possibilities and I can see that the the end of the word could be ... te or ts or ll or any conbination thereof.

New perspective agin - thanks

Di

[Colin Cruddace]

I was also thinking about White, but no initial of B, just Tho^s White. The letter W being a very stylised version starting with a down stroke and upstroke from the ^s followed by a curly downstroke and the final upstroke which looks like the letter L.

It would need a big leap of faith to accept that as being right but it's about the best I can come up with.

Colin

[annmck]

 Thos Bench
                           Benck
                           Benik
                           Behir/Behar....

(Hedging my bets  )

Ann

[majm]

Yes, I am not sure about that "B", it could well be a completely different capitalised letter .... "W" is a good option  but so too is "Z" and the last letter could then be a "y" all written above the line ***.... umm the Sands Directory for Sydney for 1890 has over 500 pages of entries, double columns per page, and only the head of the household is noted.  ...  That witness could well have not been listed there .... Sometimes I really do want an RChat smiley of a STAMPING my foot variety 

The printed form that this mc is inserted onto is NOT the original, it is compiled from several digitised records, and then inserted onto a standard form currently being used by the NSW BDM office. The printed form has varied over the years, and is completely different from the one used in the 1980s when computerisation first came to the NSW BDM office.

Cheers,  JM

[dobfarm]

Maybe Thos B Chit

[Lady Di]

Gosh - the possibilities seem to be endless. Thanks for all those options (I think  )

Now it's a simple task of tracing every single Tho's with those or similar surnames - easy peesy 

And at the end of the search we'll find he was the local parish clerk and he'd signed thousands of certs and wasn't related to any of the marriage partners (well, that's the way it usually goes, isn't it  )

The search continues ...

BTW JM - this signature is on the actual real honest to goodness "Certificate of Marriage" produced at the time of marriage and given to the Bride & Groom.

Cheers all and thanks for your help

Di

[majm]

BTW JM - this signature is on the actual real honest to goodness "Certificate of Marriage" produced at the time of marriage and given to the Bride & Groom.

Cheers all and thanks for your help

Di

Phew, so it is a fair dinkum signature then    Ummm.... would it be easier to ask the archivist for the Sydney Diocese if they know the names of Rev Martin's assistants at that time 

Cheers,  JM

[wivenhoe]

Can you give all the names and addresses that appear on the certificate please, also occupations...if some possibilities appear, connection by association might be useful.

  I saw it as Thos B Chick....? 

[Neil Todd]

STRUTH


YOU KNOW WHEN YOU BLOW IT UP....... IT LOOKS LIKE.............

Elphick

See.....http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Elphick

Maybe
Neil