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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: MarshallDescendant on Monday 05 March 18 16:43 GMT (UK)
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Hi, I am trying to figure out the middle name of the Groom's father on this marriage certificate. "William ____ Parton"? By comparing to the other letters on the document I feel like it might be Stother or Stather?? I believe Arthur Parton was illegitimate and so I'm wondering if perhaps this middle name given for the father might in fact be the real last name. And maybe Parton was just added on to save face? Would love to solve this mystery. Thanks.
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Could it be Arthur?
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I would agree with Arthur.
Carol
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Hmmm maybe. I updated the scan with a better resolution. When I look closely at the original, whoever wrote it makes the capital A in Arthur (Groom) differently. The middle name looks like it starts with the same kind of St as the place name Stottseden.
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So we can compare Arthur's
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He is possibly invented as so many 'father' on marriages of illegitimate children were. ???
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Do you think it's the same William that signs as a witness?
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Arthur Parton.
There's an 1846 birth showing in the 1851 Stottesdon census, and he staying with his grandmother Mary, and his mother Elizabeth.
I cannot find a William Parton, Farmer, in any of the census's.
Malky
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Long post here on Arthur ;)
http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=309603.0
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So we can compare Arthur's
The vicar uses a different A in his own name. :-\
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Thanks for the help. Yes I do believe Arthur invented a farther. That's why I was thinking maybe he left a clue to the real last name in the form of that middle name. Why else put a middle name in a fake name? I believe the William parton who is the witness is either his cousin or possibly uncle (his mother Elizabeth had a brother William Parton who had a son William...whose daughter is the Alice Margaret).