Help to read RC marriage record

[Isabel H]

I need help, please, to read this 1848 marriage record from St Peter's, Drogheda:- 23 Aug.  Joseph Po___? and Ann Whearty.
In particular I am interested in the groom's surname which has been transcribed as Pover. I think it is something else, but want to know what others think in case I am just seeing what I want to see.

[conahy calling]

It looks like "Porri" to me.

[dublin1850]

rootsireland transcribes it as Potter (?), so they were not sure either.

[Isabel H]

Thank you Dublin1850 and conachy calling.

cc, do you think the double r might actually be a double z?

I think this might be the marriage of our family black sheep, Joseph Pozzi. He was married to an Irish woman called Ann, and in the 1861 census they are listed in Preston, Lancs. along with a niece who had to be hers, by the name of Mary Jane Wherty/Whenty.

[Kay99]

I have been puzzling over this as well and think fits Pozzi well with the niece Mary Jane Wherty living with the couple in 1861

Kay

[dublin1850]

I think it looks more like a double s, but that would probably fit with how the name sounded, so it could well be Pozzi.

[Isabel H]

Thanks, Kay99, and dublin1850.
It could be ss, but z is one of those letters that can be written in very different styles and is sometimes misread.