Finding out about our ancestors from their signatures

[Gadget]

No one really forced me to write in any style. We had those horrible nib and sticks of wood pens and inkwells - spatters everywhere

(started school in Autumn 1949 - aged 4!)

[Brie]

Gadget, we didn't have those but had to use fountain pens in senior school. I was constantly smudging and my hands were permanently blue. And when my siblings borrowed my pen they would "bend" it so it scratched when I used it again.

I think if my descendants tried to read anything from my appalling handwriting they would conclude that I must have had a poor education!

Brie

Brie

[Gadget]

A quick grasp of the pen and the scanner ~

What does it say about me and left handers 

[Mowsehowse]

Legible "scribble" is good enough for me.

[MagicMirror]

This is my ?left hander

[Mowsehowse]

?? Joshua Loxley.....

[MagicMirror]

?? Joshua Loxley.....

Jonathan. Sorry I know his name. I was wondering if he was left handed. The signature on his will has the same slope, but on his 1st marriage (this is from his 2nd) he keeps it on the line.

[Mowsehowse]

?? Joshua Loxley.....

Jonathan. Sorry I know his name. I was wondering if he was left handed. The signature on his will has the same slope, but on his 1st marriage (this is from his 2nd) he keeps it on the line.

Sorry Magic Mirror, I was considering the legibility. One of my mother's favourite things was to remind me that until my name is "Elizabeth Arden", my signature better be legible!!   
(It still isn't Elizabeth Arden, but I suspect it could be very easily copied.)

[Brie]

Magic mirror, I think Jonathan would have been right-handed. I would find it very difficult to go to the right and up when writing. My natural inclination would be to slope to the left. Of course others may disagree