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Offline EmmaParker

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Help reading 2 signatures
« on: Saturday 08 February 20 18:49 GMT (UK) »
I'm after a bit of help reading a marriage transcript.  Its the one on the bottom left - between William Smirthwaite and Mary Veevers.  What I'd like to know are the names of the signatures of the two people who signed as being in the presence of the marriage.

https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:S3HY-65D1-PY

I'm hoping they might be family of the Smirthwaites (or Veevers).
Looking for relatives of John Cowham Parker (1773-1841), mayor of Hull & had 2 wives, Ann Goodhand & Elizabeth/Eliza Speedings.  And information of John Goodhand Parker, William Bilbie Parker, Henry Watson Parker, Marion Parker (nee Rorauer), Wilfred Watson Parker & Frances Charlotte Mary Purssell (& her parents Alfred Purssell & Ellen Ware, and grandparents Roger & Charlotte Purssell).

Also Maternal line - Hodgson, Bacon, Stapylton, Slingsby, Percy, Mortimer.

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Re: Help reading 2 signatures
« Reply #1 on: Saturday 08 February 20 19:04 GMT (UK) »
Lancs OPC has the names as D Smirthwaite and Jn Smirthwaite. That's what they look like to me, as well.

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Re: Help reading 2 signatures
« Reply #2 on: Saturday 08 February 20 19:05 GMT (UK) »
THanks

It was too much to hope they would have signed with their christian names  :(
Looking for relatives of John Cowham Parker (1773-1841), mayor of Hull & had 2 wives, Ann Goodhand & Elizabeth/Eliza Speedings.  And information of John Goodhand Parker, William Bilbie Parker, Henry Watson Parker, Marion Parker (nee Rorauer), Wilfred Watson Parker & Frances Charlotte Mary Purssell (& her parents Alfred Purssell & Ellen Ware, and grandparents Roger & Charlotte Purssell).

Also Maternal line - Hodgson, Bacon, Stapylton, Slingsby, Percy, Mortimer.

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Re: Help reading 2 signatures
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 08 February 20 19:07 GMT (UK) »
Emeltom beat me to it.

They are both Smirhwaites.

LAN-OPC transcribes them as D. Smirthwaite and Jn. Smirthwaite which seems about right. I read it as Jno rathern than Jn.

http://www.lan-opc.org.uk/Search/indexp.html
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Re: Help reading 2 signatures
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 08 February 20 19:08 GMT (UK) »
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I'm after a bit of help reading a marriage transcript.

It's not a transcript.
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Re: Help reading 2 signatures
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 31 March 20 12:17 BST (UK) »
I have a relative that is related to John Cowham Parker and I am related to him myself. Please refer to: 9QTL-JNF on Family Search. She is my great, great grandmother and John Cowham Parker is my great, great, great, great grandfather (he is the grandfather of 9QTL-JNF). Her name is Ada—I’ve put up photos If her online in Family Search.

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Re: Help reading 2 signatures
« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 01 April 20 01:19 BST (UK) »
There is a short marriage notice in the Lancaster Gazette 09 March 1816 newspaper edition which states Mary was the daughter of Sagar Veevers Esq.
There are multiple articles on Sagar Veevers over the years; of interest is one in 1811 of another of Sagar's daughters marrying a John Smirthwaite.

I can gladly expand on what the articles say if it helps.