Barbara Muth wedding certificate with name in another language

[Rosegold89]

My great great great grandmother Barbara Muth was said to be from Germany and I think she came to Britain at around the time of the German revolution. Working as a dressmaker in White Chapel on the 1851 census and then marrying in Cardiff a few years later. However on her marriage certificate it shows two different names. With the other one I can't quite understand the writing, not only that but judging by the accents on the letters it seems like it might be another language not German. Maybe it's possible she or her family came from one of the other Holy Roman Empire countries originally?

[fiddlerslass]

http://www.suetterlinschrift.de/Englisch/Sutterlin.htm

Barbara is the same spelling in German, but she seems to have written Barbarba. There is also a variant Bärbel. Surname is Muth in German script.
Czech and Slovak name for Barbara is Barbora.

[fiddlerslass]

Muth surname distribution in Germany

https://www.kartezumnamen.eu/en/index.php?sur=muth&s=Search

[davecapps]

this has nothing to do with your person, but it does prove that there is/was a name Barbarba

[Rosegold89]

Ah thanks! Yeah I knew Muth was a German surname and Barbara does not seem to be uncommon there either. I just realised the picture doesn't show the whole certificate but the name directly underneath John Lewis is the one I was referring to. I thought it looked like it starts with 'La' and the surname looks different too?

[Jo6100]

Hi Rosegold
In the link given by Fiddlerslass the capital B looks like an L in Suetterlin script

Jo

[Rosegold89]

Ah I see, thanks. Do you know if the earlier version of it that's mentioned is what could've been used? Because they married in 1853

[fiddlerslass]

I find there is not much variation between the two scripts when reading German records through the 1800's.
Here is an article on Kurrent

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurrent

Here is one of my Barbara's, to show the writing,  in a  death register 1830 from the German speaking part of North Czechia, then part of Austro- Hungarian empire. Look under Februar

http://vademecum.soalitomerice.cz/vademecum/permalink?xid=09ddd7cea03b9b8d:30bdd2c7:1201ea2ef5b:-77c5&scan=a939464924a2457a965be3058b7ee39f

[arthurk]

The certificate was issued by the GRO, and the fact that it incorporates a photocopy indicates that it's a direct copy of the return submitted at the end of the relevant quarter - note the wording "a true copy of an entry in the certified copy of the Register...."

So this isn't Barbara's own handwriting, but a reproduction of it by whoever completed the return - and it looks like a pretty good attempt at that script. Because of the repeated pattern of letters in her name, it's possible that the extra 'b' appeared at the time of copying (it's missing in the name box above), so you'd need to check the original register to see how she did actually sign.