Another conundrum! The name on the back of this photograph??

[PTRACER]

I won't tell you its subject matter (perhaps you can guess from the 'In loving memory of...'), but it's the name I'm after on the third line. I really do think the second name is 'Mike' but I may be wrong!



I also find the dates hard to read. Is that 26 or 16? And below, 10 or 19?

(Already spent a considerable amount of time on Ancestry.co.uk scrolling through names associated with those dates...Nada)

[Kay99]

Could his first name be Tobias??

Kay

[isobelw]

Possibly Milne for the surname?
Isobel

[PTRACER]

So long as your suggestion isn't based on this...: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=46943584&ref=acom

It was likely set up after a previous (and presumably incorrect) attempt at deciphering the name on this photo. The name Tobias Milne doesn't appear on the 1871 census or in any BMD records so I am discounting it.

[Kay99]

I hadn't seen the  reference you posted.   It is a puzzle

[PTRACER]

It is interesting if you both came up with that unprompted though!

[majm]

I assume the photographer was London UK based, but I wonder if perhaps the photographer mounted a post mortem photo initially taken somewhere outside of England, perhaps by some other professional photographer, so I am suggesting a possible reason for the death to not be found via GRO indexes... ?

 http://paulfrecker.com/pictureDetails.cfm?pagetype=library&typeID=1&ID=3764

I read the March date as 10th (as I would expect the number '9' should have a long tail as long as the '7' in the year 1875)

On first reading of the handwriting I thought the surname was MILE or MILES, I don't see 'k' and I don't see 'n' in that word.   I think the third letter may also be considered as a poorly formed 'r' but not a 'k'.   

JM

[isobelw]

I hadn't seen the reference either. Just thought it looked like Milne.
Isobel

[Ruskie]

I can't stop seeing Tokie Mike or Mile, but I am sure that is not right.