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Re: Help with handwriting
« Reply #9 on: Friday 04 January 08 21:22 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: stoney on Friday 04 January 08 21:09 GMT (UK)
hello, Gadget - bear of little brain here, so don't get TOO technical!  :D

I've saved an image of a page from the 1841 census from Scotland's People, as a jpeg.

I've tried selecting just the bit of handwriting I want to add to my message, but if I select and try "Save as" it just seems to save the entire page.

Help!

You have to select and then copy as new file, Stoney  :)

Sorry - I missed that bit out  :'(
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Re: Help with handwriting
« Reply #10 on: Friday 04 January 08 21:37 GMT (UK) »
I think it looks a little like Math(i)eson.



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Re: Help with handwriting
« Reply #11 on: Friday 04 January 08 21:40 GMT (UK) »
Could be - with 2 Ts  :)

I was working on McMhearson, etcs.

Wonder what the -do- refers to?

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Re: Help with handwriting
« Reply #12 on: Friday 04 January 08 22:04 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: madpants on Friday 04 January 08 21:17 GMT (UK)
Is it a place name or a person's? as it seems to have do (ditto) at the end.

hi, it is the forename of a child - the ditto is in lieu of the family name, Purdon.

What do you think it says ? Mattheison?
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Re: Help with handwriting
« Reply #13 on: Friday 04 January 08 22:05 GMT (UK) »
The first part is definately Matthew - maybe the bit after is just a mark?


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Re: Help with handwriting
« Reply #14 on: Friday 04 January 08 22:11 GMT (UK) »
The second bit does look like 'son' though - was the father also a Matthew?
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Re: Help with handwriting
« Reply #15 on: Friday 04 January 08 22:12 GMT (UK) »
Is it Matthewson?  Mothers surname used as a christian name.  I know the Scots had a naming pattern but they surely couldn't have ALL stuck to it.  :-\
GREENWELL - Middlesbrough
TURNBULL - Houghton le Spring, Coxhoe, Spennymoor
DEVEY - Pentonville, Stockton, M'bro
MOHAN/HUN - Stockton on Tees
SCRAFTON - Darlington
BROADBENT - Saddleworth, Ashton Under Lyne
HEMSWELL - Grantham, M'bro
SIMPKINS - M'bro
SIMPKIN - Little Wratting, Suffolk
MALLALIEU - Saddleworth, Ashton U L
GOODWIN - Macclesfield Forest
SUTCLIFFE - Heptonstall, Ashton U L
PLIMMER - Pontesbury, Ashton U L
CAMBRIDGE - Goulborne, Ashton U L
SIDDALL - Ashton U L

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Re: Help with handwriting
« Reply #16 on: Friday 04 January 08 22:15 GMT (UK) »
Stoney - is their a birth cert or a marriage record or another census record for this young lad?

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Re: Help with handwriting
« Reply #17 on: Saturday 05 January 08 09:52 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Gadget on Friday 04 January 08 22:11 GMT (UK)
The second bit does look like 'son' though - was the father also a Matthew?

Father's name was John Purdon.

I think it probably says Matthieson - although it's the first and only reference to such a name in the whole family line!  ???
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