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Title: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: RGB on Friday 18 October 19 08:42 BST (UK)
Love any experts to have a look at the middle name of James Manning on the attached marriage certificate. We are at a loss and cannot believe it would be Typhus!
   :-\
Many thanks
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: carol8353 on Friday 18 October 19 08:46 BST (UK)
I'm afraid that Typhus was my first thought  ???

Carol
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: shume on Friday 18 October 19 08:48 BST (UK)
Agree it looks like Typhus but you might need to find another reference to him to double check
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: shanghaipanda on Friday 18 October 19 09:03 BST (UK)
Googling "james typhus" brings up a gentleman called James Typhus Rhodes, so it might possibly be correct !
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: Greensleeves on Friday 18 October 19 09:17 BST (UK)
Typhus from the Greek meaning 'hazy/stupor'; doesn't seem any way that this works well as a name!
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: dathai on Friday 18 October 19 10:07 BST (UK)
Theophilus ?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_(biblical)
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: RGB on Friday 18 October 19 11:30 BST (UK)
thanks to all for your posts so far
R
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: majm on Friday 18 October 19 11:52 BST (UK)
Try reading it as :

Syphur

JM
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: BumbleB on Friday 18 October 19 17:40 BST (UK)
Just a thought - country, date ?  Might possibly help to solve your query  :-\
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: RGB on Friday 18 October 19 18:34 BST (UK)
About 1830 Hoxton london
Thanks
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: MonicaL on Friday 18 October 19 18:35 BST (UK)
This comes from an 1892 marriage in Bethnal Green, London. Louisa Manning, daughter of James Typhus (indexed this way by a/try) Manning, a carpenter by trade.

Monica
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: MonicaL on Friday 18 October 19 18:36 BST (UK)
Quote from: RGB on Friday 18 October 19 18:34 BST (UK)
About 1830 Hoxton london
Thanks

? Just looking at the parish register entry from 1892.

Monica
Title: Re: Deciphering a name on a marriage certificate
Post by: MonicaL on Friday 18 October 19 18:39 BST (UK)
Ahh...possible birth for James Manning in Hoxton c 1830!

Monica