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Title: Help with son in law's name please
Post by: elaine447 on Tuesday 16 March 10 22:41 GMT (UK)

wonder if anyone can read the name of the son in law
on this death cert I have tried enhancing and  enlarging it
but still cannot make it out
Elaine

Title: Re: Help with son in law's name please
Post by: avm228 on Tuesday 16 March 10 22:44 GMT (UK)

I make it John SMITH (sorry ;))

Title: Re: Help with son in law's name please
Post by: Ruskie on Tuesday 16 March 10 22:45 GMT (UK)

Not good is it? Looks like it starts with a 'T' ...  :-\

Can you do some detective work by finding out who the daughters married?

[yes, it does look a bit like Smith, until you campare it with the other 'S's' on the document]

Scrap that - I think John Smith signed, so the signature would be in a different hand.

Title: Re: Help with son in law's name please
Post by: avm228 on Tuesday 16 March 10 22:51 GMT (UK)

Quote from: Ruskie on Tuesday 16 March 10 22:45 GMT (UK)

[yes, it does look a bit like Smith, until you campare it with the other 'S's' on the document]

It looks to me like different handwriting (proportions quite different) - as though he's been asked to fill his name in above "Son in law".

Title: Re: Help with son in law's name please
Post by: elaine447 on Tuesday 16 March 10 22:54 GMT (UK)

thanks to everyone for trying I'm
sorry should have explained
I have tried to find children for this couple without success
so when I found the death cert and it had the son in law on it
I realised they must have had a daughter
but with a name like McLean its like looking for a needle in a haystack  ;D
thought if I found out his name I could track down a marriage for them
Elaine

Title: Re: Help with son in law's name please
Post by: Ruskie on Tuesday 16 March 10 22:55 GMT (UK)

I think you're right AVM. I modified my previous comment before I saw your reply.  ;)

Elaine, have you traced the family through the censuses? What date is the d/c.

Title: Re: Help with son in law's name please
Post by: elaine447 on Tuesday 16 March 10 23:09 GMT (UK)

sorry my pc so slow tonight
all I know about them is
Mary married Hugh in 1842 Port Glasgow
and died in 1863 her father John is the brother of my gggrandmother Agnes Wylie
I have other marriage certs were the Mcleans are witnesses to other members of the family
Elaine

Title: Re: Help with son in law's name please
Post by: elaine447 on Wednesday 17 March 10 01:01 GMT (UK)

Thank you everyone for your help
I think it may be John Smith
I have just found children  for a Hugh McLean and a Mary Smith
in Greenock and the names fit with the witnesses on other marriage certs
so I think Mary Wylie may have been his second wife and John has said
son in law instead of stepson
once again thanks  ;D
Elaine

Title: Re: Help with son in law's name please
Post by: elaine447 on Thursday 18 March 10 13:09 GMT (UK)

Thank you everyone
I have found out that the son in laws name is Izett PHEW!!!
Elaine