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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: louis665 on Sunday 05 May 19 14:04 BST (UK)
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The recognised part is ‘To Miss Bennett,4th Nov. a souvenir from the’.... with the unrecognised as attached.
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... the girls of the house of "maw" or "man" ....?
(it might help if we can see more of the writing and if you give us more information on context)
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Thanks,Ruskie. Unfortunately,this is all the words from a label in a box.
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I'd go with 'Maw'. Maybe 'Maw' was a name for 'Ma' - the head of some sort of house for 'girls'?
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Must be a very big label.
Have made it smaller so maybe more legible!
the girls of the house of "maw"
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Could you put up the first part - To Miss Bennett, etc.
This would help to distinguish between an n and a w
Gadget
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Thanks All!As attached.
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Hiya -
Another one for - from the girls of the house of "maw"
Looby
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It seems the word Maw is a Scottish term for mother/mom according to this website (I've never heard of it before)
http://www.scotranslate.com/translate/scottish/maw/1/443#.XM8Ra2zsbIU
Josey has already suggested this :)
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It seems the word Maw is a Scottish term for mother/mom according to this website (I've never heard of it before)
http://www.scotranslate.com/translate/scottish/maw/1/443#.XM8Ra2zsbIU
Josey has already suggested this :)
Yes - Maw is a term for mother in Scotland.
So - a souvenir from the girls of Mother's house?
Looby :)
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I suggested that 'Maw' was an affectionate name for the woman that ran or managed a group of girls in a house; Miss Bennett must have known that was how the girls were described or described themselves. May even have been a matron or housekeeper & the girls were under her management; or maybe even the house at a boarding school.
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Bit of a very long shot:
Maybe they were at Magdalene College, Cambridge?
Best regards,
Karen
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Bit of a very long shot:
Maybe they were at Magdalene College, Cambridge?
Best regards,
Karen
Good thinking,Karen :)
Louis - do you know anything about Miss Bennett or even what was with the labelin the box, who owned it or how found?
Gadget
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Just checked admission of females - it was the last of the Cambridge colleges to admit females - 1988, so .........
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"The college was the last to accept female students in 1988 – a decision that was greeted by protestors wearing black armbands" (:-X)
"When women were first admitted to the college, Magdalene students wore black armbands to protest and flew the college flag at half mast. Magdalene students also reportedly marched around Cambridge carrying a coffin decrying the expected demise of the college. The college’s academic results swiftly began to improve and it rose up the Tompkins table as women were admitted". (;D)
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'Maw' is definitely a surname too.
the girls of the house of "Maw"
'house' can also mean family in this context, so to me it also means ... the girls of the family of Maw, in other words ... the girls of the Maw family.
I know this to be the case re surname, because when looking through Yorkshire Probate Will Registers at the Borthwick, I came across Mawhood and I've also discovered Maw was a surname in its own right.
Added some Family Pedigrees are titled House of ... surname.
Mark