witnesses name please

[elaine447]

can anyone read the second witnesses name on this cert for me please
I do have an Idea of what it is but would like to get other opinions
Elaine

[elaine447]

sorry pic did not attach will try again 

[..claire..]

could it be

margaret curran??

claire

[janan]

Margaret Curran?

Jan

Snap

[Rena]

I also read;

"Margaret Curran"

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"her mark"

[elaine447]

Thank you Claire Jan and Rena
that was my initial thought but I was hoping it was Givan
when I looked at the way the registrar writes his W's M's and R's
I thought the middle letters dont resemble his other R's
Elaine

[regross]

Hi
I read it as Givan or Cuwan  although Curran is also another reading but the middle letters do not look the "r" s elsewhere nor the "n" in Francis.

The first letter could be read as either "C" or "G"
regards

Robyn

[craggagh]

Hello -

I would not rule out 'Gillan'.

craggagh.

[Rena]

I've downloaded and enlarged the image and looked specifically at the discernable words containing the letter "i" in order that it can be compared with "Curran"/"Givan" which doesn't appear to contain an "i".

It can be seen that the writer's "dots" are on the same angle/alignment as the rest of the letter and one of the two dots looks quite like a tear drop.  Thus when I looked again at the word which I initially saw as "Curran", I now agree that the dot could be part of what looks like a very stylalised "v" in "Givan".