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Offline CollSloan

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Deciphering 1864 Scottish death record.
« on: Tuesday 02 July 13 04:14 BST (UK) »
Hi all,

I'm at my wits end trying to decipher the first name and the maiden name of Robert Sloan's mother in the attached document. I've tried using old Scottish handwriting guides online and I have also asked several people, including an archivist, to take a look but no one can figure it out! I've highlighted the area (under James Sloan - Shepherd) in yellow and I would be grateful for any help. :)

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Colleen
Sloan,Boyle,Adams,Fay, Drake, Murtagh, Burbidge, English, Pollard, Hoey, Sheehan, Kinsella, Kenna, Whelan/Connor, Byrne, Hand, Brennan, Dalton, McAllister, Kelly, Nugent, Metge, Neil, Inglis, Gilsenan, Davis, Ashe, Maginn, Finneran, Connor, Yeates(Dublin)
Fay,Reynolds,Ludlow,Kelly,Inglis,Murtagh(Meath)
Burbidge,Dalton,Kelly(Kildare)
Curran,Purcell,Rainsford,Ashe(Kilkenny)
Sheehan,Fitzsimons,Foley,Doyle(Wexford)
Sloan, Todd, McGill, Cleland, Farish, Hair, Kerr, Nittles, Campbel, Burgess(Scotland)

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Re: Deciphering 1864 Scottish death record.
« Reply #1 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 04:19 BST (UK) »

First name looks like "Grace".

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Re: Deciphering 1864 Scottish death record.
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 04:24 BST (UK) »
I'd say "Grace Sloan M.S. McIters/McItirs (Deceased)."

Alexander

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Re: Deciphering 1864 Scottish death record.
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 04:41 BST (UK) »
I say also
Grace Sloan
M.S. McItirs
Deceased

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Re: Deciphering 1864 Scottish death record.
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 05:22 BST (UK) »
Hi,
I also agree with Dawn M.
Victor
HARVEY, Guiting Power, Glos                     
PORTER, Gunmakers of Whitechapel
ALLEN - Blockley, BOWLES - Notgrove, BURROWS - Sevenhampton, COOK - Notgrove, DRINKWATER-LUNN - Aston Cross, FARDON - Temple Guiting, FAULKNER - Cheltenham, GADEN, GAYDEN, GAYDON, GRINHAM - Cheltenham, HART - Stow-on-the-Wold, LANE - Staverton, MOABY - Coln St Aldwyns, STAITE - Temple Guiting, TIMBRELL - Winchcombe, TYSOE - Warks & Glos, WHITFORD - Stanway, WINTLE - Forest of Dean, WYNNIATT - Stanway

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Re: Deciphering 1864 Scottish death record.
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 07:56 BST (UK) »
Colleen, I don't think Scottish handwriting was much different at this time, it's just bad handwriting.
 Is this in Galloway by any chance? there were some very strange Mc names from the south-west which no longer exist as they've been gentrified to something else.
Magaw to MacKay for example.

Skoosh.

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Re: Deciphering 1864 Scottish death record.
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 08:22 BST (UK) »
Any handwriting issues [I don't think this certificate is particularly bad] are dwarfed by the recurring problems created by the low resolution scanning of these Scottish documents in the first place.

Josey

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Seeking: RC baptism Philip Murray Feb ish 1814 ? nr Chatham Kent.
IRE: Kik DRAY[EA], PURCELL, WHITE: Mea LYNCH: Tip MURRAY, SHEEDY: Wem ALLEN, ENGLISHBY; Dub PENROSE: Lim DUNN[E], FRAWLEY, WILLIAMS.
87th Regiment RIF: MURRAY
ENG; Marylebone HAYTER, TROU[W]SDALE, WILLIAMS,DUNEVAN Con HAMPTON, TREMELLING Wry CLEGG, HOLLAND, HORSEFIELD Coventry McGINTY
CAN; Halifax & Pictou: HOLLAND, WHITE, WILLIAMSON

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Re: Deciphering 1864 Scottish death record.
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 18:05 BST (UK) »
I think the challenge is translating what might look like McIters / McItirs to something we recognise, there's nothing in the way of a surname like that which I can find  ???

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Re: Deciphering 1864 Scottish death record.
« Reply #8 on: Tuesday 02 July 13 18:32 BST (UK) »
I wondered if it was a spelling of McIntyre, McEntire, etc., though there is clearly no 'n' in this case.

Alexander
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