Witness

[teddygreen1]

Hi am trying to find out how the second witness is on Eliza Hayes and Samuel Phillips marriage in Birmingham England in 1869.
Thanks

[Ruskie]

It's really small and a bit blurry even when enlarged. Can you rescan it bigger and clearer?

Almost impossible to see but it doesn't look much like either of those names.

[Kay99]

Mary Ann Mellor??

[rosie99]

Mary Ann Nellor 

[Jamjar]

There’s a Maryann NOLLER, wife of John NOLLER on FamilySearch.

Possibly married in 1848 as Mary Ann Allen. FREEBMD.

Jamjar

[Jamjar]

Could it be?

Marriages Jun 1870 Birmingham 6d 44 Bartholomew HAYES to Mary Ann MELLEY

1871 census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5YT-TDC

Jamjar

[Karen McDonald]

I see neither Collins nor Wall. 

There are a number of "e" examples in the image, all nice and rounded and clear. The second letter in the word we are looking at doesn't look the same, though - it looks more like an "i".

I was wondering if the name was Miller, but the "M" is not quite like the one at the beginning of Mary Ann...

Karen

[Gadget]

Could it be?

Marriages Jun 1870 Birmingham 6d 44 Bartholomew HAYES to Mary Ann MELLEY

1871 census: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:V5YT-TDC

Jamjar

Same signature for Bartholomew on this marriage. Mary Ann Melley made her mark on the cert.

Gadget

[Gadget]

Snip from 1870 marriage.

So looks as if the cleric wrote the wrong surname.

Added - Bartholomew and Mary Ann's first child, Emily Ada, Q3 1871, has mmn as Melley.