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Title: What is Frances Surname please
Post by: Westy11 on Sunday 21 January 18 07:21 GMT (UK)
Frances ? & William EVERITT married 23 Apr 1678 [Old Style] at Welby Lincolnshire.

I would appreciate some opinions f Frances Surname please.

Westy
Title: Re: What is Frances Surname please
Post by: mosiefish on Sunday 21 January 18 07:44 GMT (UK)
Looks like Mark to me.
Title: Re: What is Frances Surname please
Post by: Westy11 on Sunday 21 January 18 08:02 GMT (UK)
I was wondering MARSH???
Title: Re: What is Frances Surname please
Post by: conahy calling on Sunday 21 January 18 08:12 GMT (UK)
Looks like it could be Marsh to me.
Title: Re: What is Frances Surname please
Post by: CarolA3 on Sunday 21 January 18 08:26 GMT (UK)
March or Marsh - compare 'c' in Frances.

Carol
Title: Re: What is Frances Surname please
Post by: Westy11 on Sunday 21 January 18 12:22 GMT (UK)
Thanks Carol & conahy,

I am still not certain and when I look at the c in Frances I think its MARCH  but when I look at the S in other entries it then looks like MARSH.   :-\

Westy
Title: Re: What is Frances Surname please
Post by: horselydown86 on Sunday 21 January 18 14:59 GMT (UK)
Quote from: Westy11 on Sunday 21 January 18 12:22 GMT (UK)
I am still not certain and when I look at the c in Frances I think its MARCH  but when I look at the S in other entries it then looks like MARSH.

The thing to do is check a wider range of nearby entries, looking for whether he uses the long-s in mid-word positions.

The only examples of s in the image are in end-word positions.
Title: Re: What is Frances Surname please
Post by: Geoff-E on Sunday 21 January 18 15:07 GMT (UK)
His name is EVERATT

For some reason that variant of the name has declined.