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Help with a Forename
« on: Thursday 09 April 20 00:15 BST (UK) »
Hi

Thanks to the wonderful help on here I'm now back to the Grandparents of my Lichelade ancestor. Christopher Lichelade left a Will dated 1558, but I can't figure out what his wife is called - Bolas is what it looks like to me, but I'm not sure

Thankyou in advance
Claire
Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
Mocquard ~ London, France
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Re: Help with a Forename
« Reply #1 on: Thursday 09 April 20 02:20 BST (UK) »
Yes, it looks a bit like that to me too.  However, I could only find one mention of that name when I surfed and it's a man's name.

Here's the url and there are two lists ;  one for boys and one for girls names.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Polish_given_names
Aberdeen: Findlay-Shirras,McCarthy: MidLothian: Mason,Telford,Darling,Cruikshanks,Bennett,Sime, Bell: Lanarks:Crum, Brown, MacKenzie,Cameron, Glen, Millar; Ross: Urray:Mackenzie:  Moray: Findlay; Marshall/Marischell: Perthshire: Brown Ferguson: Wales: McCarthy, Thomas: England: Almond, Askin, Dodson, Well(es). Harrison, Maw, McCarthy, Munford, Pye, Shearing, Smith, Smythe, Speight, Strike, Wallis/Wallace, Ward, Wells;Germany: Flamme,Ehlers, Bielstein, Germer, Mohlm, Reupke

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Re: Help with a Forename
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 09 April 20 08:39 BST (UK) »
I read the name as Skolas, perhaps a derivative of the name Scholastica.

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Re: Help with a Forename
« Reply #3 on: Thursday 09 April 20 10:17 BST (UK) »
Is it possible to post a higher resolution image of the piece?  I think I can see a couple of linking lines but when I try to enlarge this image it gets too pixelated to read, a jpeg file would be good for my vector graphics programme where I could enlarge it and play around with it including sharpening the image which may show the apparent linking strokes better.

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Re: Help with a Forename
« Reply #4 on: Thursday 09 April 20 16:30 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Bookbox on Thursday 09 April 20 08:39 BST (UK)
I read the name as Skolas, perhaps a derivative of the name Scholastica.

We could do with a larger snippet to compare letters, but I'm with Bookbox on this one - Skolas gets my vote.

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Re: Help with a Forename
« Reply #5 on: Friday 10 April 20 01:07 BST (UK) »
Hi Everyone and thankyou

I have to agree it does look like Skolas but I have included a section of the Will for comparison

Claire

Luce, Tippett , Thomson, Dolling ~ Devon & Cornwall
Mocquard ~ London, France
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Re: Help with a Forename
« Reply #6 on: Friday 10 April 20 10:30 BST (UK) »
I have enlarged the original name and both sharpened it and added a background shade to try and eliminate the glare fading of the thin pen strokes.  I've also tried to follow the pen strokes in a red line overlay and cyan where I'm not sure if the shape is part of the name or just a squiggle.

I have to say I'm not seeing Skolas though at the moment but I can't think what else it might be at the moment.

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Re: Help with a Forename
« Reply #7 on: Friday 10 April 20 10:49 BST (UK) »
Quote from: artifis on Friday 10 April 20 10:30 BST (UK)
cyan where I'm not sure if the shape is part of the name or just a squiggle.

You might like take a look at the samples of capital S here ...
www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/alphabets/majuscules/S.html
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