Ideas for first name of informant, please

[Gadget]

 I can't decipher the  first name of the son who was the informant on a Scottish death cert. Other information is in the hand of the Registrar, which is quite different.

Alexander Coutts had four sons that I have records for - James, Alexander, Robert and Samuel. Samuel would have been eight at the time so it's not him but I don't see it looking like any of the others either!

Any ideas, please.

Gadget

PS - could it be David??

[wivenhoe]

Wm.  A  COUTTS?

[Gibel]

I think it’s an abbreviated first name, then the initial A, then Coutts

My mother always wrote capital A as in this signature.

[Dundee]

Wm.  A  COUTTS?

That is what it looks like to me too.  Parents might be Alexander COUTTS and Agnes Oswald WELSH?

Debra 

[brooksburns]

William (Wm)

[Gadget]

Thanks all. There's no record of him having a William A.   but that's quite possible, given the limits of the pre-1855 records.

I'll see if he had an earlier 3rd wife.

 

[Gadget]

So far nothing of a William A, either forward or back for this family 

Does this look like the same hand six years later.

Add - family were Kirkcudbrightshire and West Derby

[Shetland Sausage]

My initial reaction was 'Arnold' - I can't see Wm or William in that personally.

[Gadget]

I've found a son William bpt Oct 1839 to correct parents so a full sib to the Coutts in my tree.

Many thanks to all.

Gadget