Baptism witness name

[Skoosh]

Oliver

Skoosh.

[Kinsy]

Am getting cross-eyed staring at that name !! especially after all the different suggestions - for which many thanks.The line followed for the first letter does seem closest to the writer's capital P - and the last two letters look like "er" to me.
Like Maiden Stone, I also think it should be a female, so tried searching for James Sutting/Sutling(?) on the offchance that she was his wife - clutching at straws.
Back to staring again ...............

[Maiden Stone]

I only know about godparents for Catholic and Anglican children. If 2 godparents are chosen they should be 1 of each gender. Was it the same for Reformed churches? Were second godparents for other baptisms female?
Presumably she was a relative of the child's father.

[Kinsy]

Yes, at least one of each gender seems to have been the norm for Dutch Reformed Church as well. And it seems very likely indeed that she was a relative of the father, so I was really hoping she'd provide a clue in tracing his parents - if I could just work out what her first name was.
 

[arthurk]

I can't fully make out Hester Elisabeth's surname beyond seeing that it looks Dutch/Afrikaans rather than English/Irish. However, while a mother's maiden name might be recorded at a baptism, a godmother's may well not be.

So, if Joseph Bernard Doyle had a brother who also married an Afrikaner, and this woman was chosen as a godparent, could we be looking at an Afrikaans female forename?

[Kinsy]

Yes, that might be a possibility - although it was the norm in the DRC for women to retain their maiden names. But even a Doyle sister-in-law might be a useful clue.
P.S. Hester Elisabeth's surname was Grimbeek.

[Forguette]

Could it be Prud with squiggle meaning abbreviation for Prudence?

[Kinsy]

I'll have a search to see if I can find a Prudence Doyle.
I'd actually given up .... but now you've got me started/staring again 

[arthurk]

I've just had another look now too - could it be Diner, ie a misspelling of Dinah?