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Old Photographs, Recognition, Handwriting Deciphering => Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition => Topic started by: GenesA on Friday 05 November 21 15:24 GMT (UK)
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A friend has sent me an image of a 1796 marriage from the Bromsgrove parish registers. We were expecting the bride’s forename to be Lauretta/Lawretta/Larrett but it seems to be Sarah to me, although I see a very faint letters at the end which looks like something has been scrubbed out.
Can anyone confirm either way? Thanks :)
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The S in the Six further down looks nothing like the letter at the beginning of the name
ADDED Does her surname also start with an S as that matches the S in Six
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I have attached the full image. It looks like there’s actually two examples of handwriting on this entry. I wonder if someone was trying to be helpful and altered Larrett to Sarah at a later date? Now I’ve looked again I think I can make out a faint “tt” at the end of Sarah.
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What was her surname
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Can you find a name or location nearby in the register which begins with L and is written in the same hand?
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The transcript at the Hive said her surname was Scranage.
I had a unfounded suspicion that Lauretta was the Lawrett Albutt, daughter of John and Lawrett, who was baptised in 1778 in Bromsgrove. That was before the marriage entry was sent to me though.
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Does she survive to appear on any other documents - 1841 or ?
What name was her death registered in (if you know)
Maybe she was known as Sarah or preferred that name but agree about the double t at the end.
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I did wonder if it began with an S.
I have attached the full image. It looks like there’s actually two examples of handwriting on this entry.
It was likely to have been completed prior to the marriage and then the person marrying the couple or a clerk who was present filled in the missing bits. If you look at the 'signature' whoever has completed that does not have letters that look the same at the beginning of the first name and the surname.
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Hi GenesA, I searched for a baptism for Lauretta Scrannage (and variants) in Bromsgrove but there were no results. Do you know what year she was born?
Interestingly, FreeReg has this baptism…
Baptism date 28 Dec 1776
Person forename William
Person sex M
Father forename John
Mother forename Larrett
Father surname SCRANNAGE
Mother surname
Person abode Likey
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She was born about 1778. She died in 1850 aged 72.
Lauretta married again in 1825 at Birmingham to John Delahay (husband William Hodgkins died in 1812). She was unable to sign her name but her name is ‘Laret Hodgkins” for her second marriage.
I have her in 1841 living in West Bromwich with one of her Hodgkins grandsons. She died in 1850 as Lauretta Delay, her death was registered by one of her son’s wives.
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Can we see the signature bit please? Oops - I didn't see the earlier replies!