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Sketchbook owner's name?
« on: Friday 31 August 18 20:51 BST (UK) »
I would be grateful if anyone could decipher the name of this owner of a Victorian sketchbook dated September 1850.

Many thanks.
Minta, Wadeson (Lincs) Leeson, Staniforth (Leics) Wain (Lincs)

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Re: Sketchbook owner's name?
« Reply #1 on: Friday 31 August 18 21:09 BST (UK) »
Caitlin?   
And if that is correct then surname possibly starts
Calli.........

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Re: Sketchbook owner's name?
« Reply #2 on: Friday 31 August 18 21:20 BST (UK) »
Pipped at the post again.  ;D

I was just going to suggest Caitlin.

Also Calli...
Possibly Callin...

I wondered about Collingwood, but I don't think the long letter in the middle is a "g", and the second letter looks more like an "a" than an "o"...

The end of the surname looks very "vague" - barely more than a squiggle. It could be all manner of things.  ???

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Re: Sketchbook owner's name?
« Reply #3 on: Friday 31 August 18 21:23 BST (UK) »
I’m going through CALLI* Scotland’s people. There are far more Calli.... surnames than I imagined.


How about CALLINGHAM. Although that last flourish almost looks like a Q!
Modified, no, not enough up strokes

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Re: Sketchbook owner's name?
« Reply #4 on: Friday 31 August 18 21:28 BST (UK) »
Where was the book obtained, may help to identify someone on 1851 census?

Annie
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Ireland:- Cullen, Flannigan (Derry), Donahoe/Donaghue (variants) (Cork), McCrate (Tipperary), Mellon, Tol(l)and (Donegal & Tyrone)

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Re: Sketchbook owner's name?
« Reply #5 on: Friday 31 August 18 23:35 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Rosinish on Friday 31 August 18 21:28 BST (UK)
Where was the book obtained, may help to identify someone on 1851 census?

Annie

That would be a good idea. 

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Re: Sketchbook owner's name?
« Reply #6 on: Friday 31 August 18 23:37 BST (UK) »
Although it does look like Caitlin , I thought that was a more modern name. Not one I'd associate with 1850s.
Looby :)

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Re: Sketchbook owner's name?
« Reply #7 on: Friday 31 August 18 23:50 BST (UK) »
I originally thought Caitlin but like Looby wondered if it was too modern. However, although it is in common usage today its origins were probably in the past. I believe it is Irish.

May I ask what the sketchbook contains, and whereabouts this signature is situated? Front page? Back page? Below a specific drawing? If so, what is that drawing of?

Are all sketches signed the same way? If so can you post more?

Sorry for so many questions, however I think this is a man's handwriting, so am trying to work out if 'Caitlin' might be the sitter (if this is a portrait). Alternatively, it may be a place name.

Where was the sketch book found? Eg it is a family relic and your family originated in Ireland? It was found at a car boot sale in Essex? Context may help.  :)


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Re: Sketchbook owner's name?
« Reply #8 on: Friday 31 August 18 23:56 BST (UK) »
Could it be Carlton Callingwood?

Just throwing another name in  ;D

Looby
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