Author Topic: Help deciphering the groom's mother's maiden name please.  (Read 381 times)

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Help deciphering the groom's mother's maiden name please.
« on: Sunday 29 January 17 04:36 GMT (UK) »
As background, on the 25th January, 1856 at River Leigh (South Australia), George Bailey (Bachelor of London, England - a storekeeper aged 30 from Smythes Creek, son of John Bailey (labourer) and Mary Hatton(? Hattor, Ratton, Rattor???), married Flora McKenzie, a spinster from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, a domestic Servant aged 22 from River Leigh (SA), the daughter of Kenneth McKenzie (Shepherd) and Catherine McDonald. Golfhill station was a large property on the River Leigh, hence the earlier reference to marriage at this location in entry 16.

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Re: Help deciphering the groom's mother's maiden name please.
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 29 January 17 05:34 GMT (UK) »
From my view of the information, it it most likely to be Rattor.

I do not think it can be Hatton/r as the entry above has the fathers name as Hill, and it is formed totally differently to the name you are querying.

I could easily be wrong, but that is how I see it.

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Re: Help deciphering the groom's mother's maiden name please.
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 29 January 17 06:48 GMT (UK) »
I'd say 'HAttor'.
There are a lot of capital 'H's on these pages.
The one under 'Robert' on the witnesses signatures  for 'His mark', looks very like the one at the start of Mary's name.
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Cochran, Nicol, Paton, Bruce:Scotland. Bertolle:London
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Re: Help deciphering the groom's mother's maiden name please.
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 29 January 17 10:00 GMT (UK) »
I read it as Mary Hutton.
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Re: Help deciphering the groom's mother's maiden name please.
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 29 January 17 10:07 GMT (UK) »
Mary Hutton or Hatton