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Offline robbo43

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Asking the impossible? Signature on letter
« on: Friday 12 June 09 23:03 BST (UK) »
Can anyone decipher this signature, although it may well be in the family tradition of illegible squiggles?

The letter dates from 1865 and is to a 13 year old girl.  It reads -

Watton
Dec 24th 65

My Dear Harriet
I shall be glad if your father will allow you to drive me to Yaxham the Wednesday Morning to meet the first train to Norwich.  If you can get here by eight o clock you will be in time for breakfast and I think it would be better as your pony could then rest a little time.
Wishing you a very Merry Chistmas
I remain
Yours sincerely
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Please be sure to write and let me know if you cannot come

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Re: Asking the impossible? Signature on letter
« Reply #1 on: Friday 12 June 09 23:06 BST (UK) »
G Reess ? e  (Old-fashioned "ss")

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Re: Asking the impossible? Signature on letter
« Reply #2 on: Friday 12 June 09 23:07 BST (UK) »
E or G REYNE??

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Re: Asking the impossible? Signature on letter
« Reply #3 on: Friday 12 June 09 23:08 BST (UK) »
I read the surname as Payne  8)
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Re: Asking the impossible? Signature on letter
« Reply #4 on: Friday 12 June 09 23:11 BST (UK) »
I read it as Payne too...
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Re: Asking the impossible? Signature on letter
« Reply #5 on: Friday 12 June 09 23:29 BST (UK) »
Thanks to all of you.  Payne looks a good fit and  possibles that I know of are Alice, Jannette, Mary, Maria or Edward - but the letter doesn't sound as though it was written by a man.

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Re: Asking the impossible? Signature on letter
« Reply #6 on: Friday 12 June 09 23:40 BST (UK) »
I think it's E Payne...if he was writing to a little girl (13 year olds today wouldn't like to be called "little girls" would they!) then he may have modified his writing to suit, which is why it might sound a little childish/feminine to our ears  :)

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Re: Asking the impossible? Signature on letter
« Reply #7 on: Friday 12 June 09 23:48 BST (UK) »
I think it's E Payne.

There is an Edward Payne in Watton on the 1861, aged 50

RG9/1238 F 149 P 12.

Honest - I thought it was E before I checked on the census and didn't see what Prue had put.


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Added - also a younger one at RG9/1238 F 132 P 13
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Re: Asking the impossible? Signature on letter
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 13 June 09 00:05 BST (UK) »
I agree... E Payne and that was before seeing any of the other replies :)

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