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Re: German Handwriting: would you really name your kid Knut Waldemar ?
« Reply #9 on: Tuesday 05 March 19 18:44 GMT (UK) »
Karen, thankyou for your input.

I think Paul is the most logical answer although Saul didn't even occur to me but also possible.
I've tried checking the other entries and comparing the letters but our scribe here is simply not consistent!
The other 2 sons were named Carl and Max....somehow a Knut just wouldn't have fit in with that!
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Re: German Handwriting: would you really name your kid Knut Waldemar ?
« Reply #10 on: Tuesday 05 March 19 19:48 GMT (UK) »
I'm not sure what it says but according to Wiki


"Knut is a Norwegian, Swedish, German & Dutch first name......"


I don't know why there would be an umlaut (the 2 dots) over the u but I've never seen it over the name Paul in German either.


Personally I think it could be either  ???
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Re: German Handwriting: would you really name your kid Knut Waldemar ?
« Reply #11 on: Wednesday 06 March 19 05:03 GMT (UK) »
The 2 Little dots is actually a hook, to differentiate between the letter n and u which are the same in Kurrent/Sütterlin and also  a lazily written e.

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Re: German Handwriting: would you really name your kid Knut Waldemar ?
« Reply #12 on: Wednesday 06 March 19 08:35 GMT (UK) »
The 2 Little dots is actually a hook, to differentiate between the letter n and u which are the same in Kurrent/Sütterlin and also  a lazily written e.

Regards Peonie


Thank you for explaining, Peonie, it was puzzling me  ::) :)


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King, Richardson, Hathaway, Sweeney, Young - Chelsea, London
Richardson - Rayne Essex
Steward, Hindry, Hewitt - Norfolk, North Walsham area


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Re: German Handwriting: would you really name your kid Knut Waldemar ?
« Reply #13 on: Wednesday 06 March 19 09:39 GMT (UK) »
My first thought was Knut.     Final name looks like Alford to me.

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Re: German Handwriting: would you really name your kid Knut Waldemar ?
« Reply #14 on: Wednesday 06 March 19 10:21 GMT (UK) »
I've enlarged it and I see it as:

Knut Waldamer Alfrad

It's not Paul as the first letter is very different from the P in Peter ( add - and Plath)

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Added - after another search through the page, I'm not sure that the f in Alfrad is an f - could it be a p? There is a loop on the down stroke of the other fs.
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Re: German Handwriting: would you really name your kid Knut Waldemar ?
« Reply #15 on: Wednesday 06 March 19 12:06 GMT (UK) »

All over the pages the letters were mixed. I have enclosed a site where you can check and see it is Paul. Everybody adds their own characteristics to forming the letters. I do, specially with "s", it can be different in one word.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurrent

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Re: German Handwriting: would you really name your kid Knut Waldemar ?
« Reply #16 on: Tuesday 26 March 19 12:36 GMT (UK) »
Please ALL - believe Peonie. ;)
It is Paul-Waldemar Alfred!
And I say too.  ;D
We learned that writing at school.