Help with reading signature

[grendlsmother]

Hope someone can help with reading this surname.  James ? is listed on my great-grandfather's death certificate as "brother-in-law", but as I know the names of all his brothers-in-law, I am assuming that he was actually the husband of a sister-in-law.   Knowing who he was, and then perhaps finding his wife would greatly assist in my fruitless search for the birthplace of my great-grandmother for whom I have no record previous to her marriage.

The death certificate is Peter McCormick, Coylton, 1893 and I would imagine this James is somewhere in the 30 - 60 age group.   Possible wife's surnames, Brown, Kerr, Logan, Thomson, McGregor (but could be anything).   Any ideas what this signature is or, even better, do you know who he was?

[bearkat]

Looks like James DEVOY - but why isn't the upright of the D straight like the B?

[Boongie Pam]

Hmmm, looks like Devoy or Deroy to me?  The former gets hits as a name on the igi.

Are there any other Ds on the page for comparison?

Pam
 

[grendlsmother]

No other "Ds" on the page, or any other capital letter that resembles this one.   I have tried James Devoy on IGI and not come up with anything at all - what did you key in?   I have also tried Berry, Delroy, Denny, Perry and various other combinations.   Some come up, but not with a suitable surname for the wife.   I'm really stuck with this one - don't know if you have read my previous post - searching for Jeannie Brown - if I could identify this guy it could give me the clue I need.

Thanks for all suggestions and would be interested in details for James Devoy on IGI.

[Boongie Pam]

I just put in James Devoy and Bristish Isles and got 12 hits mostly from Dublin.

Just a thing I do if it's an odd name, helps let me know if it's a possibility.

P

[Anni B]

Probably no help at all, but - my first instinct (before looking at any other answers) was that it could be Deary.  I know, the a and r are formed differently in other parts of the image and the D is supect .......... could do with more of this person's handwriting to check if his a and r differs depending on the letter before it. 
FWIW
Anne

[PrueM]

Could it perhaps be "Leroy"? 
Prue

[corinne]

I'd say that the last letters are definitely "evoy" which would probably make the first one likely to be D, so Devoy.  I don't know of other names with "evoy" as the ending.  That first letter is formed pretty much the way I would expect to see a D written.  Just out of interest, what did you make of the word in brackets under brother-in-law?

[PrueM]

Yes, looking at it again I can see that what I thought was an "r" is not the same as the other "r"s on the page, so I concur that it is most probably "evoy" and the first letter is probably a "D"

I thought the word at the bottom was a really badly written "Present" - meaning present at the death.

Prue

P.S.  Don't forget that the term "in-law" had wider connotations than it does today - apart from the modern usage, it could have meant a step-brother or some other tenuous relationship