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Offline Nick Robinson

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Signature help
« on: Sunday 03 August 14 10:22 BST (UK) »
I'm wondering if anybody can decipher this signature. This has beaten me.

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Nick Robinson

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Re: Signature help
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 03 August 14 10:35 BST (UK) »
Slightly larger version

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Re: Signature help
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 03 August 14 10:45 BST (UK) »
Hi Nick, I love a challenge but this one has beaten me too  :-\  I keep squinting at it but nothing is jumping out at me apart from double L towards the end.  Will keep squinting  ;D
Robbins - Wolverhampton.
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Re: Signature help
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 03 August 14 10:59 BST (UK) »
A W Ostle(with an uncrossed t) or Oslle? :-\

Jan ;)
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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Re: Signature help
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 03 August 14 11:02 BST (UK) »
Hi Jool,

This is a difficult one - I,ve spent hours with this. He was born in Kilsby, Northants in 1887, so the name should be of English origin. I've been through BMD's, census etc, but can find nothing like this.
Thanks for your reply.

Thankyou Flattybasher for the enlargement

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Re: Signature help
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 03 August 14 11:04 BST (UK) »
Can any other text on the page help figure out letters

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Re: Signature help
« Reply #6 on: Sunday 03 August 14 11:11 BST (UK) »
Thanks Jan - Ostle it could be - it does'nt tally with the birthplace, but then that could be wrong.

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« Reply #7 on: Sunday 03 August 14 11:14 BST (UK) »

Sorry I'm puzzled - if you don't know his name how do you know when and where he was born (or even that it is a he) ???

Jan ;)

 By the way Ostle/Osslle  seems to hail mainly from the north west of England
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bedfordshire - farr, carver,handley, godfrey, newell, bird, emmerton, underwood,ancell
buckinghamshire- pain
cambridgeshire- bird, carver
hertfordshire- conisbee, bean, saunders, quick,godfrey
derbyshire- allsop, noon
devon - griffin, love, rapsey
dorset- rendall, gale
somerset- rendall, churchill
surrey/middlesex - douglas, conisbee, childs, lyon groombridge

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Re: Signature help
« Reply #8 on: Sunday 03 August 14 11:27 BST (UK) »
Janan,

This signature is on a MN Crew list, which states he place of birth along with his signature.
Sorry you were puzzled
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