Brothers Surname?

[partoon_researcher]

Has anyone come across Surnames in a will being written in lower case?
I welcome any thoughts of alternative names on this.
I believe the Surname was Hand but find it unusual that it would be written with a small h instead of a Capital.
First letter of Surname looks the same as the s in son and j in John so difficult to decipher.

Thanks in advance for looking

[sami]

Is there another capital H to compare it to?

sami

[partoon_researcher]

Hi Sami

There isn't one no

[sami]

My first thought when I looked at it was that it was a capital P.

But if you are relatively sure that the surname is Hand then perhaps that is the writer's way of doing a capital H.

sami

[lizdb]

It is certainly different from his small "h" (as in hereby for example)

[spendlove]

Hi,

I read the Surname as Isant, take a look at the I  further down "I the said testraix"

This said it also looks like the J in John.

What date is the will?

Spendlove

[Alexander.]

It is certainly a very standard capital H - here are some other examples:
http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/alphabets/majuscules/H.html

Alexander

[partoon_researcher]

Thanks sami
This is the only document i have with the Surname Hand so i have nothing to compare it with, was just wondering if anyone else could see something different. This is the will of Ann Cooper from 1803 so difficult to find original records

[partoon_researcher]

Thank you Alexander for those, they look reasurring