Author Topic: Help please - strange script  (Read 9385 times)

Offline chinakay

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 13,553
  • Our housegoof
    • View Profile
Re: Help please - strange script
« Reply #27 on: Sunday 07 October 07 22:39 BST (UK) »
There's a recurring character in the last line, like a lightning slash, that looks runic. See here:

http://tinyurl.com/3cd7ty

On the other hand, if you flip vertical and horizontal, the middle line looks like "niksmum"...maybe you should ask her ;D

Cheers,
China
Moore/Paterson~Montreal
Moore/Addison~New Brunswick
Jubb/Kerr~Mirfield~Halifax~Moffatt
Williams~Dolwyddelan

King~Bedfordshire~Hull
Jenkins~Somerset
Sellers~Hull

Offline PrueM

  • RootsChat Honorary
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 12,637
  • Please don't try to PM me :)
    • View Profile
Re: Help please - strange script
« Reply #28 on: Monday 08 October 07 00:45 BST (UK) »
I'm wondering if it could have been someone just practising writing on the nearest bit of card. I've got lots of funnies in the Family Bible  :-\ Alternatively, just an offspring trying to copy 'grown up' writing  :-\

Cal241 and I were very excited about some writing (perfectly legible, but meaningless) on the back of a photo of an unidentified rellie - until I posted it on rootschat, and it turned out to refer to a horse running in a race at Newmarket  :-\ :-\ ;D ;D

Obviously the photo of g-g-g-g-grandad (or whoever it was) was sitting next to the telephone or something while grandma was talking to the bookie!

Prue

Offline liverpool annie

  • Deceased † Rest In Peace
  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • ********
  • Posts: 13,434
  • Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
    • View Profile
Re: Help please - strange script
« Reply #29 on: Monday 08 October 07 00:50 BST (UK) »

And you think I'm bad !!  ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Was she Irish ... by any chance ???  ;D
Cooper : Muels : Howarth : Every : Price : King

http://web.archive.org/web/20130407030702/http://www.freewebs.com/liverpoolannie

http://web.archive.org/web/20130407191115/http://manchestersoldiers.webs.com

http://web.archive.org/web/20130807102055/http://www.powv.webs.com/
Be who you are and say what you feel -  because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind ! Dr. Seuss

Erect no gravestone .... let the Rose every year bloom for his sake ! Rilke Sonnets to Orpheus, I

Offline Gadget

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 57,815
    • View Profile
Re: Help please - strange script
« Reply #30 on: Monday 08 October 07 00:52 BST (UK) »
40 -1 at Aintree  :o
Census &  BMD information Crown Copyright www.nationalarchives.gov.uk and GROS - www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk

***Restorers - Please do not use my restores without my permission. Thanks***

https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=877762.0


Offline Boongie Pam

  • RootsChat Honorary
  • RootsChat Aristocrat
  • *******
  • Posts: 2,550
  • Pa is Scottish, Ma is Welsh, Nose is Roamin'
    • View Profile
Re: Help please - strange script
« Reply #31 on: Monday 08 October 07 15:18 BST (UK) »
Ok ok ok back on track please! And not the race track lol ;)
UK Census info. Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk
~~~~~~~~~~~

Dumfrieshire: Fallen, Fallon, Carruthers, Scott, Farish, Aitchison, Green, Ryecroft, Thomson, Stewart
Midlothian: Linn/d, Aitken, Martin
North Wales: Robins(on), Hughes, Parry, Jones
Cumberland: Lowther, Young, Steward, Miller
Somerset: Palmer, Cork, Greedy, Clothier

Online intermittently!

Offline maidmarianoops

  • RootsChat Marquessate
  • *******
  • Posts: 4,183
  • somewhere over the rainbow
    • View Profile
Re: Help please - strange script
« Reply #32 on: Thursday 11 October 07 09:46 BST (UK) »
notts/derbys clark
      "        "      stenson
        "       "    nicholson
       "     "        jarvis
                         castledine
    rhodes

 
Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk