Gordon Blair - Mystery? or Not!

[majm]

Two Blair signatures for comparison.

Perhaps OzScot may have access to a scanner and perhaps could scan Gordon's signature from Elizabeth's 1863 Qld birth registration to see any deteriorations in that short timeframe.


JM

[Ruskie]

Um, it does look like a capital D.

Added: the small d in the top signature was the style of d I thought the second appears to be.

[majm]

In decades of transcribing 19th century documents, I have ..... errr ..... never ever seen a capital D in that position in any person's name .... never.   I have seen strangely constructed letters, inversed, inverted etc, but a capital D as in say the title Don (Don Quixote etc comes to mind) within a name as Scottish as Gordon BLAIR ....   

I love family history, something new to learn every day !

JM

[sparrett]

I am offering this
The final r in the word Blair  are not the same form.
The earlier signature uses a form which consists of a very small loop to the left of a  squared off top and dropped ending. It is not used today. Gordon has made an imperfect use of this form.

The second signature uses a form of r still recognizable and in use today.

To me the d in Gordon is the same in both instances. The looped rise appears in both. It is unusual. I do not see either of the d 's as upper case.

The slant of the hand is diminished in the second instance.

I personally, cannot make a conclusion


 

[majm]

1864

The G stands very tall, the D is same height as B.  The D's initial downstroke runs off the r and so to come back to form the D the writer carries up and across, and then back down to meet that initial downstroke before moving on for the o which then runs into the n which in turn then runs into the capital B which rushes off into the l without going completely back to the base of the B, but clearly it is a capital B.  And so just as that B is capitalised, I see the D as capitalised.   

I cannot say that the J Gordon Blair's signature is from same hand as Gordon Blair's signature, but I cannot say it is not, so I agree with Sue .... no conclusion, so I am hoping Gordon's signature on Elizabeth's birth cert is available.

Of course, errr .... Jane Novral may have had a male friend attend to register the 1857 birth ..... 

JM

[OZScot]

Just back.

The 1863 BC of baby Elizabeth Blair whilst it is badly blurred being a copy of a copy
and looks as it has been played around with to enlarge it, would be totally useless for a
signature comparison apart from that, as the piece I have has 3 births on it and they
are well done exactly in the same hand.

The witness was Mr/s?. Hogan & registrar appears to be Mr/s. Hendren

Age of Gordon 31yrs & Julia 25yrs.

I got the BC from a lady's tree on Ancestry and I think earlier I gave her the credit.
It will be there and easily found I suspect if anyone wants to see and if you agree or not.

[majm]

Yes, the image purchased today from Qld BDM for Isabella has five births on it, all in the same hand, that of the registrar EXCEPT for the section where the informant is required to sign, and so each informant has either signed or made their mark. 

JM

[OZScot]

Is that now a 4th Marriage date/year we now have for Gordon Blair & Julie Droughton?

1862, 1863, 1864 & 1876. ??

If so the answer's a pineapple.

Can't wait to hear back from the churches. Has that been two days of waiting now?

In my little dog's time it is. 

[majm]

Sorry that you can't wait to hear back from the churches, but family history matters. 

JM