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I have paid for about 5 or 6 .pdf's at £7 a certificate over the last few months. I've only just seen the link tonight for a £2.50 jpg image. This is fantastic news and I can't believe I never saw it before!Don't forget that a small proportion (a few %) of entries are not available as an online image for some technical reason.
Another thing to remember is that church vicars, padres, preachers, etc., moved away from the birth places to give guidance in other parishes and did not know the then very strong local dialects.I have an ancestor named Piercy who was recorded as Pearson when he married in 1806, and my wife has an Anderson recorded (on the original marriage register) as Andrews in 1850. When you allow for the possibility that many people couldn't offer the 'correct' spelling of their surname, variations are only to be expected. The recorder would write what he believed was said.
The American civil war affected European shipping, the North Americans blockaded the southern American ports. My Glaswegian gt. grandfather lost his business due to lost salesInteresting you should say that - my gt-grandfather married in 1863, started a brokerage in Liverpool but was declared bankrupt in 1866 but discharged early in 1867. I guess that may have been a contributory factor ?
.... that the Style of your signatures are all very scimitar ...Without wishing to divert this thread, what kind of predictive text came up with this ?
Is the marriage signature is a good enough match for this one to conclude it was the same individual? I think it is a really close match except for the loop of the W and the shape of the t's which bothers me.I agree with your 'differences', but they must be outweighed by similarities. It would be helpful to know the dates of all these documents - how separated they are in time ? People's signatures did evolve, as did the writing implements they used. Metal nibs and quills could scratch the paper, which may cause the changes in those 't's for example.
According to Ancestry, I am 30 % Scottish, and this can only be through my English mother, whose ancestry was mostly NE England and North Yorkshire based.
I’m sorry but I’m not quite sure what you are asking, but your question has me thinking of another possibility.I suppose I am asking - accepting that both drawings are from the same hand - whether the later one was a true attempt to copy the original, or possibly to reproduce it from memory ?